Senses: eyes and ears, sentence 8

Cone cells for colour come in three kinds, most sensitive to red, green and blue light, and the brain mixes their signals into all colours; rod cells see in dim light but not in colour.

Who acts: Cone cells, brain, rod cells, cells · What happens: come, mix, see, signal · To what, where: three kinds, signals, dim light

This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: eyes and ears» 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 (Cone cells, brain, rod cells, cells), 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	Cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cells	compound
2	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 colour	case
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cells	nmod
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 see	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 kinds	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 kinds	nummod
8	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 light	punct
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 sensitive	advmod
11	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 light	amod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 red	case
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 light	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 green	punct
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 red	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 blue	cc
17	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sensitive	conj
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cells	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 brain	det
22	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mixes	nsubj
23	mixes	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 see	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 signals	nmod:poss
25	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mixes	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 colours	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 colours	det
28	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mixes	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 cells	punct
30	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cells	compound
31	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 see	nsubj
32	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 light	case
34	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 light	amod
35	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obl
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 colour	cc
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 colour	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 colour	case
39	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 light	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Cone cells for colour and sensitive red light		three kinds		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kind=Location
2	mix	present	the brain	cells's signals		into all colours	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent signal=Patient into colour=Co-Patient
3	see	present	rod cells		dim light but colour		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	signal		cells = cell				nom signal «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:biology:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.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 ×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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