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title: About 1 in 12 boys and men and about 1 in 200 girls and women are co… — Senses: eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: About 1 in 12 boys and men and about 1 in 200 girls and women are colour blind, most often mixing up reds and greens. Who acts: 1 boys. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: eyes and ears» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Senses: eyes and ears, sentence 9

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About 1 in 12 boys and men and about 1 in 200 girls and women are colour blind, most often mixing up reds and greens.

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**Who acts:** 1 boys · **What happens:** be, mix up · **To what, where:** reds

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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 (1 boys), 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:9
# text = About 1 in 12 boys and men and about 1 in 200 girls and women are colour blind, most often mixing up reds and greens.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
18	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	mixing	mix	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	reds	red	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	greens	green	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **is** | present | 1 boys and men and 1 girls and women |  |  |  |  | colour *obl*; blind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mix up** | gerund | 1 boys and men and 1 girls and women *not said here* | reds and greens |  |  |  | often *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Patient |

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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:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.lesson:9`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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