Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 8

After about forty, the lens of the eye gets stiffer and close-up reading becomes harder, so many grown-ups need reading glasses.

Who acts: lens, up reading, many grown ups · What happens: get, become, grow, need · To what, where: reading glasses

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (lens, up reading, many grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 forty	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 forty	advmod
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 gets	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 forty	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lens	det
6	lens	lens	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gets	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 eye	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eye	det
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lens	nmod
10	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	stiffer	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 gets	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 becomes	cc
13	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 up	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 up	punct
15	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reading	compound
16	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 becomes	nsubj
17	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gets	conj
18	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 becomes	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 need	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	25 need	advmod
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ups	amod
22	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ups	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 grown	punct
24	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 need	nsubj
25	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gets	parataxis
26	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 glasses	compound
27	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 need	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the lens of the eye		after forty	stiff property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	become	present	up reading			hard property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	need	present	many grown ups	reading glasses			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme

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, 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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:8.

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, R6-punct-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.

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