Senses: eyes and ears, sentence 5

The pupil is a hole that lets light into the eye; the coloured iris around it is a muscle that makes the pupil smaller in bright light and bigger in the dark.

Who acts: pupil, hole, coloured iris, muscle · What happens: be, let, make · To what, where: hole, light, eye, muscle, pupil

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 (pupil, hole, coloured iris, muscle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hole	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hole	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lets	nsubj
7	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hole	acl:relcl
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lets	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 eye	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eye	det
11	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lets	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 iris	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 iris	det
14	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 iris	amod
15	iris	iris	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 muscle	nsubj
16	around	around	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 iris	nmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 muscle	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 muscle	det
20	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hole	parataxis
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 makes	nsubj
22	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 muscle	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pupil	det
24	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 makes	obj
25	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 makes	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 light	case
27	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 light	amod
28	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 smaller	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bigger	cc
30	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 smaller	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 dark	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dark	det
33	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bigger	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hole	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the pupil	a hole			tree rules
2	let	present	a hole	light	the eye		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	is a	present	the coloured iris around pupil	a muscle			tree rules
4	make	present	a muscle	the pupil		small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pupil=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:5.

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 ×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.

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