Senses: eyes and ears, sentence 0
Your eyes catch light and your ears catch vibrations in the air, and both turn what they catch into nerve signals that the brain makes into pictures and sounds.
Who acts: eyes, both, brain · What happens: catch, turn, make · To what, where: light, vibrations, air, nerve signals, pictures
This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: eyes and ears» 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, both, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 catch | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ears | cc |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 light | conj |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 catch | conj |
| 9 | vibrations | vibration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 catch | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turn | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turn | cc |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 turn | nsubj |
| 16 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 catch | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 turn | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 catch | nsubj |
| 19 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 signals | case |
| 21 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 signals | compound |
| 22 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 catch | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 makes | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 brain | det |
| 25 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 makes | nsubj |
| 26 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 signals | acl:relcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 pictures | case |
| 28 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 makes | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sounds | cc |
| 30 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 pictures | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 catch | 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 | catch | present | Your eyes | light and your ears | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | present | Your eyes not said here | vibrations | the air | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | present | both | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch | present | eyes = eye | nerve signals | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | present | the brain | nerve signals | pictures and sounds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent that=Material into picture=Product |
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:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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