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title: In English «blue» is one colour with shades; in Ukrainian there are… — The colours, and two kinds of blue · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: blue, two everyday blues, blues. A sentence of the lesson «The colours, and two kinds of blue» of the ukrai
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# The colours, and two kinds of blue, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** blue, two everyday blues, blues · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** one colour, English, Ukrainian

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The colours, and two kinds of blue» of the ukrainian street 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 (blue, two everyday blues, blues), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:010-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 010-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	shades	shade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	blues	blue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	SYniy	SYniy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	jeans	jeans	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	27	nmod	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	blakYtnyi	blakytnyi	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | blue | one colour |  | English |  | with shades | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | two everyday blues with blues's own names |  |  | Ukrainian; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ukrainian=Location |
| 3 | **name** |  | blues *= blue* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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