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title: Pee colour is a simple check: pale straw means you've drunk enough,… — Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks · tree and pragmatics
description: Pee colour is a simple check: pale straw means you've drunk enough, and dark yellow often means you need more water. Who acts: Pee colour, pale straw, you, dark yellow. A sentence of the lesson «Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks, sentence 6

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Pee colour is a simple check: pale straw means you've drunk enough, and dark yellow often means you need more water.

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**Who acts:** Pee colour, pale straw, you, dark yellow · **What happens:** be, mean, drink, need · **To what, where:** simple check, more water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pee colour, pale straw, you, dark yellow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:051-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks.lesson:6
# text = Pee colour is a simple check: pale straw means you've drunk enough, and dark yellow often means you need more water.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 051-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Pee	pee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	yellow	yellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pee colour | a simple check |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | pale straw |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **drink** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | dark yellow |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **need** | present | you | more water |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:051-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks.lesson:6`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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