--- title: About 1 boy in 12 is colour blind but only about 1 girl in 200, beca… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics description: About 1 boy in 12 is colour blind but only about 1 girl in 200, because of how the gene is passed on; a test of coloured dots with a hidden number finds it. Who acts: 1 boy, test. 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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 (1 boy, test), 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:8 # text = About 1 boy in 12 is colour blind but only about 1 girl in 200, because of how the gene is passed on; a test of coloured dots with a hidden number finds it. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 12 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 gene gene NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 24 on on ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 coloured colour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 dots dot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | 1 boy in 12 | | | | | colour *obl*; blind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pass on** | present · passive | | the gene | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **colour** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | present | a test of coloured dots with a hidden number | gene | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **test** | | | coloured dots with a hidden number | | | | | nom test «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:8`. **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, R8-pos-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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