Wolves and dogs, sentence 15

Dogs see mostly blues and yellows because they have two kinds of colour cells instead of our three, so red and green look much alike to them.

Who acts: Dogs, blues, red · What happens: see, have, look · To what, where: blues, two kinds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» 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, blues, red), 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	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 blues	advmod
4	blues	blue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 yellows	cc
6	yellows	yellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blues	conj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 have	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	advcl
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 kinds	nummod
11	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cells	case
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cells	compound
14	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kinds	nmod
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	18 three	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 three	nmod:poss
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 have	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 red	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 red	advmod
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 look	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 green	cc
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 red	conj
24	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 alike	advmod
26	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 look	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 look	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	Dogs	blues and yellows			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blue=Stimulus
2	have	present	blues = blue	two kinds of colour cells		instead our three	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
3	look	present	red		blues = blue	alike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to they=Experiencer

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:024-wolves-and-dogs.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 ×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.

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