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title: Red-green colour blindness is common, affecting about 1 in 12 men an… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool · tree and pragmatics
description: Red-green colour blindness is common, affecting about 1 in 12 men and about 1 in 200 women of European descent; most colour-blind people still see many colours. Who acts: green colour blindness, most blind people. A sentence of the lesson «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool» of the art
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# Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool, sentence 10

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Red-green colour blindness is common, affecting about 1 in 12 men and about 1 in 200 women of European descent; most colour-blind people still see many colours.

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**Who acts:** green colour blindness, most blind people · **What happens:** be, affect, see · **To what, where:** 1 12 men, many colours

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool» of the arts 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 (green colour blindness, most blind people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:013-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool.lesson:10
# text = Red-green colour blindness is common, affecting about 1 in 12 men and about 1 in 200 women of European descent; most colour-blind people still see many colours.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 013-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Red	Red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	blindness	blindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	affecting	affect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case
19	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
25	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
26	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | green colour blindness |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **affect** | gerund | green colour blindness *not said here* | 1 12 men and 200 women of European descent |  |  |  | 1 *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | present | most blind people | many colours |  |  | still |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:013-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool.lesson:10`.

**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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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