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title: The Ukrainian flag shows both ideas: the law describes its colours a… — The colours, and two kinds of blue · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Ukrainian flag, law, people. A sentence of the lesson «The colours, and two kinds of blue» of the ukrainian street 
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# The colours, and two kinds of blue, sentence 2

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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.

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**Who acts:** Ukrainian flag, law, people · **What happens:** show, describe, call · **To what, where:** ideas, colours, colour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 flag, law, people), 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:2
# text = 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.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	SYniy	SYniy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ZHOvtyi	ZHOvtyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	zhovto	zhovto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
30	blakYtnyi	blakYtnyi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	dep	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | the Ukrainian flag | both ideas |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent idea=Recipient |
| 2 | **describe** | present | the law | law's colours |  |  |  | as SYniy and ZHOvtyi | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent colour=Theme as syniy=Attribute |
| 3 | **call** | present | people | colour |  |  |  | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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:2`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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