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title: The Ukrainian constitution describes the flag as two equal stripes,… — The colours, and two kinds of blue · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ukrainian constitution describes the flag as two equal stripes, blue above and yellow below. Who acts: Ukrainian constitution. 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 ever
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# The colours, and two kinds of blue, sentence 15

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The Ukrainian constitution describes the flag as two equal stripes, blue above and yellow below.

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**Who acts:** Ukrainian constitution · **What happens:** describe · **To what, where:** flag

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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 (Ukrainian constitution), 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:15
# text = The Ukrainian constitution describes the flag as two equal stripes, blue above and yellow below.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	above	above	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	below	below	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
17	.	.	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 | **describe** | present | the Ukrainian constitution | the flag |  |  |  | as two equal stripes | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent flag=Theme as stripe=Attribute |

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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:15`.

**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.

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

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