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title: Colour blindness is usually inherited, is much more common in boys,… — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics
description: Colour blindness is usually inherited, is much more common in boys, and most often makes red and green hard to tell apart. A sentence of the lesson «The optician and glasses» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The optician and glasses, sentence 12

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Colour blindness is usually inherited, is much more common in boys, and most often makes red and green hard to tell apart.

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**What happens:** inherit, be, make, tell apart · **To what, where:** Colour blindness, red

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The optician and glasses» of the medicine 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:027-the-optician-and-glasses.lesson:12
# text = Colour blindness is usually inherited, is much more common in boys, and most often makes red and green hard to tell apart.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 027-the-optician-and-glasses.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): no change
1	Colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	blindness	blindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	csubj	_	_
24	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **inherit** | present · passive |  | Colour blindness |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in boys; common *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present |  | red |  |  |  | hard, often *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 |

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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:medicine:027-the-optician-and-glasses.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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