Senses: eyes and ears, sentence 6

The lens in the eye works like a magnifying glass and makes an upside-down picture on the retina at the back of the eye, and the brain turns it the right way up.

Who acts: lens, brain · What happens: work, magnify, make, turn · To what, where: upside down picture, retina, lens

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 (lens, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lens	det
2	lens	lens	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 eye	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eye	det
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lens	nmod
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 glass	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 glass	det
9	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 glass	amod
10	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 makes	cc
12	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 works	conj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 picture	det
14	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 picture	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 down	punct
16	down	down	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 picture	amod
17	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 retina	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 retina	det
20	retina	retina	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 picture	nmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 back	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 back	det
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 retina	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 eye	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 eye	det
26	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 back	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 turns	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 turns	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 brain	det
30	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turns	nsubj
31	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 works	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turns	obj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 way	det
34	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 way	amod
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turns	obl:unmarked
36	up	up	ADV	_	35 way	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 works	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work	present	the lens in the eye			like a magnifying glass	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	magnify	gerund					vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	make	present	the lens in the eye not said here	a upside down picture	the retina at the back of the eye		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product
4	turn	present	the brain	lens		the right way obl:unmarked	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:6.

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): 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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