Senses: eyes and ears, sentence 7

Where the optic nerve leaves the eye there are no light cells, so each eye has a small blind spot that the brain usually fills in so we do not notice it.

Who acts: optic nerve, light cells, eye, brain, we · What happens: leave, be, have, fill in, not notice · To what, where: eye, small blind spot, brain

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 (optic nerve, light cells, eye, 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 leaves	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nerve	det
3	optic	optic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nerve	amod
4	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaves	nsubj
5	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 are	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaves	obj
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 are	expl
9	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cells	det
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cells	compound
12	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 are	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 has	advmod
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 eye	det
16	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 are	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 spot	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spot	amod
20	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spot	amod
21	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fills	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 brain	det
24	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fills	nsubj
25	usually	usually	ADV	_	26 fills	advmod
26	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 spot	acl:relcl
27	in	in	PART	_	26 fills	compound:prt
28	so	so	SCONJ	_	32 notice	mark
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 notice	nsubj
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 notice	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 notice	advmod
32	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fills	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 notice	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 are	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	leave	present	the optic nerve	the eye			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	does	present	no light cells		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	each eye	a small blind spot			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient
4	fill in	present	the brain	a small blind spot		usually property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient
5	not notice	present · do-support	we	brain			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:7.

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): 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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