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title: SIryi means grey, like a grey cat or a rainy day. — The colours, and two kinds of blue · tree and pragmatics
description: SIryi means grey, like a grey cat or a rainy day. Who acts: SIryi. 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 every clause.
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# The colours, and two kinds of blue, sentence 13

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SIryi means grey, like a grey cat or a rainy day.

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**Who acts:** SIryi · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** grey

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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 (SIryi), 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:13
# text = SIryi means grey, like a grey cat or a rainy day.
# 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): no change
1	SIryi	SIryi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | SIryi | grey |  |  |  | like a grey cat or a rainy day | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grey=Topic |

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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): no change. **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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