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title: The colours, and two kinds of blue — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «The colours, and two kinds of blue», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In English «blue» is one colour with shades; in Ukrainian there are two everyday blues with their own names: SYniy, dark blue 
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# The colours, and two kinds of blue

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Lesson 10 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/0/) — In English «blue» is one colour with shades; in Ukrainian there are two everyday blues with their own names: SYniy, dark blue like jeans or a deep sea, and blakYtnyi, light sky blue.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/1/) — It is a bit like the way English treats red and pink as two colours, though pink is only a light red.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/2/) — The Ukrainian flag shows both ideas: the law describes its colours as SYniy and ZHOvtyi, blue and yellow, but people very often call it zhovto-blakYtnyi, yellow and sky blue.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/3/) — Drawing at Sashko's kitchen table, his little sister asks yakoho kOlyoru? — what colour? — and the answers are words you already half know: zelEnyi green, BIlyi white, CHOrnyi black, SIryi grey.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/4/) — SYniy means dark blue; Ukrainian has two everyday blues, SYniy (dark) and blakYtnyi (light).
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/6/) — ZHOvtyi means yellow, the colour of sunflowers, the sun and the flag's lower half.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/7/) — zelEnyi means green, the colour of grass and leaves.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/8/) — BIlyi means white and CHOrnyi means black.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/9/) — rOzhevyi means pink.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/10/) — pomarAnchevyi means orange, the colour; it comes from pomarAncha, an old word for the orange fruit, while oranges themselves are usually called apelsyny.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/11/) — fioLEtovyi means purple or violet.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/12/) — korYchnevyi means brown, like chocolate or a dog's coat.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/13/) — SIryi means grey, like a grey cat or a rainy day.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/14/) — yakoho kOlyoru? means what colour?, and the answer changes its ending, for example chervOnoho, red.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/15/) — The Ukrainian constitution describes the flag as two equal stripes, blue above and yellow below.

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