--- title: The eye has three kinds of colour cells, for red, green and blue lig… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics description: The eye has three kinds of colour cells, for red, green and blue light; in colour blindness one kind works differently, usually making some reds and greens hard to tell apart. Who acts: eye, one kind. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, one kind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.lesson:7 # text = The eye has three kinds of colour cells, for red, green and blue light; in colour blindness one kind works differently, usually making some reds and greens hard to tell apart. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 11 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 16 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 blindness blindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 differently differently ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 usually usually ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 reds red NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 greens green NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ _ 35 apart apart ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the eye | three kinds of colour cells | | | | for red light | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | | 2 | **work** | present | one kind | | | | | in colour blindness; differently *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in blindness=Theme | | 3 | **make** | gerund | one kind *not said here* | some reds and greens | | | | hard, usually *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](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:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.lesson:7`. **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): 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. 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