Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 7

The eye has three kinds of colour cells, for red, green and blue light; in colour blindness one kind works differently, usually making some reds and greens hard to tell apart.

Who acts: eye, one kind · What happens: have, work, make, tell apart · To what, where: three kinds, reds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» 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 (eye, one kind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eye	det
2	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kinds	nummod
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cells	case
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cells	compound
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kinds	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 light	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	16 light	case
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 light	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 green	punct
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 red	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 blue	cc
15	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 red	conj
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kinds	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 works	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 blindness	case
19	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blindness	compound
20	blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 works	obl
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 kind	nummod
22	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 works	nsubj
23	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
24	differently	differently	ADV	_	23 works	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 making	punct
26	usually	usually	ADV	_	27 making	advmod
27	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 works	advcl
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 reds	det
29	reds	red	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 making	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 greens	cc
31	greens	green	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 reds	conj
32	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 making	xcomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 tell	mark
34	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 hard	acl
35	apart	apart	ADV	_	34 tell	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the eye	three kinds of colour cells	for red light	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
2	work	present	one kind		in colour blindness; differently property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in blindness=Theme
3	make	gerund	one kind not said here	some reds and greens	hard, usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset red=Product
4	tell apart speech: assert	to-infinitive			apart property	vn distinguish-23.5 «NP V NP»: 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:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.lesson:7.

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): 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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