The colours, and two kinds of blue, sentence 0
In English «blue» is one colour with shades; in Ukrainian there are two everyday blues with their own names: SYniy, dark blue like jeans or a deep sea, and blakYtnyi, light sky blue.
Who acts: blue, two everyday blues, blues · What happens: be, name · To what, where: one colour, English, Ukrainian
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 (blue, two everyday blues, blues), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 English | case |
| 2 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 colour | obl |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 blue | punct |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 colour | nsubj |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 blue | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 colour | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 colour | nummod |
| 8 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 shades | case |
| 10 | shades | shade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 colour | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 are | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Ukrainian | case |
| 13 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 are | obl |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 are | expl |
| 15 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 colour | parataxis |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 blues | nummod |
| 17 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blues | amod |
| 18 | blues | blue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 are | nsubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 names | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 names | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 names | amod |
| 22 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 blues | nmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 SYniy | punct |
| 24 | SYniy | SYniy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 blues | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 blue | punct |
| 26 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 blue | amod |
| 27 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 SYniy | appos |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 jeans | case |
| 29 | jeans | jeans | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 27 blue | nmod |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 sea | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 sea | det |
| 32 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 sea | amod |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 jeans | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 blue | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 blue | cc |
| 36 | blakYtnyi | blakytnyi | ADV | _ | 40 blue | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 blakYtnyi | punct |
| 38 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 blue | amod |
| 39 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 blue | compound |
| 40 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 SYniy | appos |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 colour | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | blue | one colour | English | with shades | tree rules | ||
| 2 | does | present | two everyday blues with blues's own names | Ukrainian; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ukrainian=Location | ||||
| 3 | name | blues = blue | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
Licence: CC 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:0.
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.
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