How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 12

Dogs see blue and yellow well, but red and green look greyish to them, so a blue or yellow ball is easier to find on a lawn.

Who acts: Dogs, red, blue ball · What happens: see, look, be, find · To what, where: blue, sounds, lawn

This is a sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» of the biology 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 (Dogs, red, blue ball), 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 see	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 yellow	cc
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blue	conj
6	well	well	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 look	cc
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 green	cc
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 red	conj
12	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
13	greyish	greyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 easier	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	24 easier	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ball	det
19	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ball	amod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 yellow	cc
21	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 blue	conj
22	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 easier	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 easier	cop
24	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 look	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 find	mark
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 easier	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 lawn	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 lawn	det
29	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	Dogs	blue			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blue=Stimulus
2	look	present	red		sounds = sound		greyish property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to they=Experiencer
3	is	present	a blue ball				easy property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive	a blue ball not said here			a lawn		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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