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title: It is a bit like the way English treats red and pink as two colours,… — The colours, and two kinds of blue · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a bit like the way English treats red and pink as two colours, though pink is only a light red. Who acts: colour, English, pink. A sentence of the lesson «The colours, and two kinds of blue» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The colours, and two kinds of blue, sentence 1

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It is a bit like the way English treats red and pink as two colours, though pink is only a light red.

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**Who acts:** colour, English, pink · **What happens:** be, treat · **To what, where:** bit, red, light red

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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 (colour, English, pink), 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:1
# text = It is a bit like the way English treats red and pink as two colours, though pink is only a light red.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	treats	treat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl	_	_
10	red	red	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	pink	pink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	red	red	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | colour | a bit |  |  |  | like the way | tree rules |
| 2 | **treat** | present | English | red |  |  |  | as two colours | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent red=Theme as colour=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | pink | a light red |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:ukrainian-street:010-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue.lesson:1`.

**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): 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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