The optician and glasses, sentence 12
Colour blindness is usually inherited, is much more common in boys, and most often makes red and green hard to tell apart.
What happens: inherit, be, make, tell apart · To what, where: Colour blindness, red
This is a sentence of the lesson «The optician and glasses» of the medicine 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: 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 | Colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blindness | compound |
| 2 | blindness | blindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inherited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 inherited | aux:pass |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 inherited | advmod |
| 5 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 common | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 common | cop |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 common | advmod |
| 10 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 inherited | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 boys | case |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 common | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 makes | cc |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 often | advmod |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 makes | advmod |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 inherited | conj |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 makes | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 green | cc |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 red | conj |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 makes | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hard | csubj |
| 24 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 23 tell | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inherited | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inherit | present · passive | Colour blindness | usually property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | in boys; common property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | present | red | hard, often 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:medicine:027-the-optician-and-glasses.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): no change. 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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