Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 9
Every eye has a blind spot where the nerve leaves and there are no light cells; the brain fills in the hole, and an octopus eye, wired the other way round, has none.
Who acts: eye, nerve, light cells, brain, octopus eye · What happens: have, leaf, be, fill, wire · To what, where: blind spot, hole, other way, none
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 (eye, nerve, light cells, brain), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 eye | det |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 5 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spot | amod |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 leaves | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nerve | det |
| 9 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaves | nsubj |
| 10 | leaves | leaf | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spot | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 are | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 are | expl |
| 13 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 leaves | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 cells | det |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cells | compound |
| 16 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 are | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fills | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brain | det |
| 19 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fills | nsubj |
| 20 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hole | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hole | det |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fills | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 has | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 has | cc |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 eye | det |
| 27 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eye | compound |
| 28 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 has | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eye | punct |
| 30 | wired | wire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 eye | acl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 way | amod |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wired | obl |
| 34 | round | round | ADV | _ | 33 way | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 has | punct |
| 36 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 37 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 36 has | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every eye | a blind spot | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leaf | present | the nerve | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | does | present | no light cells | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fill | present | the brain | the hole | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wire | participle | a octopus eye not said here | the other way | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | have | present | a octopus eye | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |
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:9.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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