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title: Dogs see colours, but fewer than we do, mostly blues and yellows; re… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs see colours, but fewer than we do, mostly blues and yellows; red and green look alike to them. Who acts: Dogs, red. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pets and farm animals, sentence 7

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Dogs see colours, but fewer than we do, mostly blues and yellows; red and green look alike to them.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, red · **What happens:** see, look · **To what, where:** colours, Dogs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths 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 (Dogs, red), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:7
# text = Dogs see colours, but fewer than we do, mostly blues and yellows; red and green look alike to them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 007-pets-and-farm-animals.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
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	blues	blue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	yellows	yellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **see** | present | Dogs | colours |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | present | red |  | Dogs *= dog* |  |  | alike *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to they=Experiencer |

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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:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:7`.

**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. **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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