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title: Cone cells for colour come in three kinds, most sensitive to red, gr… — Senses: eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: Cone cells for colour come in three kinds, most sensitive to red, green and blue light, and the brain mixes their signals into all colours; rod cells see in dim light but not in colour. Who acts: Cone cells, brain, rod cells, cells. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: eyes and ears» of the biology cou
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# Senses: eyes and ears, sentence 8

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Cone cells for colour come in three kinds, most sensitive to red, green and blue light, and the brain mixes their signals into all colours; rod cells see in dim light but not in colour.

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**Who acts:** Cone cells, brain, rod cells, cells · **What happens:** come, mix, see, signal · **To what, where:** three kinds, signals, dim light

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: eyes and ears» 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 (Cone cells, brain, rod cells, cells), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.lesson:8
# text = Cone cells for colour come in three kinds, most sensitive to red, green and blue light, and the brain mixes their signals into all colours; rod cells see in dim light but not in colour.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 069-senses-eyes-and-ears.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 ×2
1	Cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	mixes	mix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Cone cells for colour and sensitive red light |  |  | three kinds |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kind=Location |
| 2 | **mix** | present | the brain | cells's signals |  |  |  | into all colours | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent signal=Patient into colour=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **see** | present | rod cells |  |  | dim light but colour |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **signal** |  | cells *= cell* |  |  |  |  |  | nom signal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×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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