Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 8
About 1 boy in 12 is colour blind but only about 1 girl in 200, because of how the gene is passed on; a test of coloured dots with a hidden number finds it.
Who acts: 1 boy, test · What happens: be, pass on, colour, find, test · To what, where: gene, coloured dots
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 (1 boy, test), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 1 | advmod |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 boy | nummod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blind | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 12 | case |
| 5 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 boy | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blind | cop |
| 7 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blind | obl |
| 8 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 girl | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 girl | advmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 1 | advmod |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 girl | nummod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blind | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 200 | case |
| 15 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 girl | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 passed | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 passed | mark |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 because | fixed |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 passed | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gene | det |
| 21 | gene | gene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 passed | aux:pass |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 blind | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 passed | compound:prt |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 finds | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 test | det |
| 27 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 finds | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 dots | case |
| 29 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 dots | amod |
| 30 | dots | dot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 test | nmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 number | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 number | det |
| 33 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 number | amod |
| 34 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dots | nmod |
| 35 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blind | parataxis |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 finds | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 1 boy in 12 | colour obl; blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass on | present · passive | the gene | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | colour | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | find | present | a test of coloured dots with a hidden number | gene | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 5 | test | coloured dots with a hidden number | nom test «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:8.
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, R8-pos-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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