Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 2
When a part works a little differently, such as an eyeball that is too long or colour cells that mix up red and green, things look blurry or the same, and glasses or a few tricks help.
Who acts: part, eyeball, cells, things, glasses · What happens: work, be, mix up, look, help
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 (part, eyeball, cells, things), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 works | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 works | nsubj |
| 4 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 look | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 differently | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 4 works | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eyeball | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 eyeball | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eyeball | det |
| 12 | eyeball | eyeball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 works | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 long | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 long | cop |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyeball | acl:relcl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 colour | cc |
| 18 | colour | colour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 long | conj |
| 19 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eyeball | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 mix | nsubj |
| 21 | mix | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cells | acl:relcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 mix | compound:prt |
| 23 | red | red | ADV | _ | 21 mix | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 green | cc |
| 25 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 red | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 look | punct |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 look | nsubj |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | blurry | blurry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 look | xcomp |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 same | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 same | det |
| 32 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 blurry | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 glasses | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 glasses | cc |
| 35 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 help | nsubj |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 tricks | cc |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 tricks | det |
| 38 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tricks | amod |
| 39 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 glasses | conj |
| 40 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 look | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | a part | such a eyeball and cells; differently property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a eyeball and cells | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a eyeball and cells not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | mix up | present | cells | red property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | look | present | things | blurry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | help | present | glasses or a few tricks | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:2.
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 ×5, 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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