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title: Dogs see mostly blues and yellows because they have two kinds of col… — Wolves and dogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs see mostly blues and yellows because they have two kinds of colour cells instead of our three, so red and green look much alike to them. Who acts: Dogs, blues, red. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Wolves and dogs, sentence 15

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Dogs see mostly blues and yellows because they have two kinds of colour cells instead of our three, so red and green look much alike to them.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, blues, red · **What happens:** see, have, look · **To what, where:** blues, two kinds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» 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, blues, red), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:15
# text = Dogs see mostly blues and yellows because they have two kinds of colour cells instead of our three, so red and green look much alike to them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 024-wolves-and-dogs.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
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	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	blues	blue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	yellows	yellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Dogs | blues and yellows |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blue=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | blues *= blue* | two kinds of colour cells |  |  |  | instead our three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | present | red |  | blues *= blue* |  |  | alike *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to they=Experiencer |

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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:biology:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:15`.

**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. **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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