--- title: Dogs see blue and yellow well, but red and green look greyish to the… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs see blue and yellow well, but red and green look greyish to them, so a blue or yellow ball is easier to find on a lawn. Who acts: Dogs, red, blue ball. A sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/) / 12 # How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 12 Dogs see blue and yellow well, but red and green look greyish to them, so a blue or yellow ball is easier to find on a lawn. **Who acts:** Dogs, red, blue ball · **What happens:** see, look, be, find · **To what, where:** blue, sounds, lawn This is a sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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 (Dogs, red, blue ball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:12 # text = Dogs see blue and yellow well, but red and green look greyish to them, so a blue or yellow ball is easier to find on a lawn. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 well well ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 13 greyish greyish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 17 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 lawn lawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | Dogs | blue | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blue=Stimulus | | 2 | **look** | present | red | | sounds *= sound* | | | greyish *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to they=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | a blue ball | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | a blue ball *not said here* | | | a lawn | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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](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:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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