Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 0
Your eyes and ears are not just windows and holes: they are clever machines with lenses, wipers, drains, pipes and tiny spirit levels, and the brain quietly fixes their faults so you never notice.
Who acts: eyes, brain, you · What happens: not be, be, fix, not notice, fault · To what, where: windows, clever machines, faults
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» 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 (eyes, brain, you), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 windows | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ears | cc |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eyes | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 windows | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 windows | advmod |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 windows | advmod |
| 8 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 holes | cc |
| 10 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 windows | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 machines | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 machines | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 machines | cop |
| 14 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 machines | amod |
| 15 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 windows | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 lenses | case |
| 17 | lenses | lens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 machines | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wipers | punct |
| 19 | wipers | wiper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lenses | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drains | punct |
| 21 | drains | drain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lenses | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pipes | punct |
| 23 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lenses | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 levels | cc |
| 25 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 levels | amod |
| 26 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 levels | compound |
| 27 | levels | level | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 machines | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fixes | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fixes | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 brain | det |
| 31 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fixes | nsubj |
| 32 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 33 fixes | advmod |
| 33 | fixes | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 machines | acl:relcl |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 faults | nmod:poss |
| 35 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fixes | obj |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 39 notice | mark |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 notice | nsubj |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 notice | advmod |
| 39 | notice | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 fixes | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 windows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Your eyes and ears | windows and holes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | eyes = eye | clever machines and tiny spirit levels | with lenses and wipers and drains and pipes | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fix | present | the brain | eyes's faults | quietly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fault=Patient | |||
| 4 | not notice | present | you | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | fault | eyes = eye | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.lesson:0.
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): 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.
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