--- title: Mantis shrimps have 12 to 16 kinds of light sensors while we have 3… — The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp · tree and pragmatics description: Mantis shrimps have 12 to 16 kinds of light sensors while we have 3 kinds of colour sensors, yet a 2014 study found they are worse than us at telling close colours apart. Who acts: Mantis shrimps, we, 2014 study, kinds. 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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 (Mantis shrimps, we, 2014 study, kinds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.lesson:13 # text = Mantis shrimps have 12 to 16 kinds of light sensors while we have 3 kinds of colour sensors, yet a 2014 study found they are worse than us at telling close colours apart. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.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 ×3 1 Mantis mantis NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 7 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 18 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 2014 2014 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 ccomp _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 at at SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl 32 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 apart apart ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Mantis shrimps | 12 kinds of light sensors | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | we | 3 kinds of colour sensors | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | | 3 | **find** | past | a 2014 study | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | kinds *= kind* | | | | | than us; bad *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | kinds *= kind* *not said here* | close colours | | | | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent colour=Recipient | 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. 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