Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 4
In short sight the eyeball is a little too long, so pictures of far things come into focus in front of the back of the eye, and a glasses lens bends the light so the focus lands in the right place.
Who acts: eyeball, pictures, glasses lens, focus · What happens: be, come, bend, land · To what, where: short sight, focus, light, right place
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 (eyeball, pictures, glasses lens, focus), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sight | amod |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 little | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eyeball | det |
| 5 | eyeball | eyeball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 little | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 little | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 little | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 little | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pictures | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 13 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 come | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 things | case |
| 15 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pictures | nmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 little | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 focus | case |
| 19 | focus | focus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 front | case |
| 21 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 back | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 back | det |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 front | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 eye | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eye | det |
| 27 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 back | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bends | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bends | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 lens | det |
| 31 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 lens | compound |
| 32 | lens | lens | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bends | nsubj |
| 33 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 light | det |
| 35 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bends | obj |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 39 lands | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 focus | det |
| 38 | focus | focus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lands | nsubj |
| 39 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 bends | advcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 place | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 place | det |
| 42 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 place | amod |
| 43 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lands | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 little | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the eyeball | short sight | little property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | present | pictures of far things | focus | in front of the back of the eye | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into focus=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | bend | present | a glasses lens | the light | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material | ||||
| 4 | land | present | the focus | the right place | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in place=Destination |
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:4.
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 ×2, 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.
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