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title: Drawing at Sashko's kitchen table, his little sister asks yakoho kOl… — The colours, and two kinds of blue · tree and pragmatics
description: Drawing at Sashko's kitchen table, his little sister asks yakoho kOlyoru? — what colour? — and the answers are words you already half know: zelEnyi green, BIlyi white, CHOrnyi black, SIryi grey. Who acts: words, little sister, answers. A sentence of the lesson «The colours, and two kinds of blue» of
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# The colours, and two kinds of blue, sentence 3

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Drawing at Sashko's kitchen table, his little sister asks yakoho kOlyoru? — what colour? — and the answers are words you already half know: zelEnyi green, BIlyi white, CHOrnyi black, SIryi grey.

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**Who acts:** words, little sister, answers · **What happens:** draw, ask, be, know · **To what, where:** kitchen table, words

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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 (words, little sister, answers), 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:3
# text = Drawing at Sashko's kitchen table, his little sister asks yakoho kOlyoru? — what colour? — and the answers are words you already half know: zelEnyi green, BIlyi white, CHOrnyi black, SIryi grey.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	yakoho	yakoho	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	kOlyoru	kOlyoru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:WP:PronType=Int
17	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	already	already	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	28	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind
28	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	zelEnyi	zelEnyi	NOUN	FW	_	31	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	BIlyi	BIlyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	white	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	CHOrnyi	CHOrnyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	flat	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	SIryi	SIryi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	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 | **draw** | gerund | words *not said here* |  |  | Sashko's kitchen table |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Sashko's little sister |  |  |  |  | yakoho kOlyoru | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the answers | words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present | words |  |  |  |  | half *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:3`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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