Growing, seeing and hearing, sentence 3

A boy in Halifax squints at the board and sits closer and closer; his teacher notices, he has an eye test, and with new glasses the letters are sharp again.

Who acts: boy, teacher, letters · What happens: squint, sit, notice, have, be · To what, where: eye test

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» of the everyday 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 (boy, teacher, letters), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squints	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Halifax	case
4	Halifax	Halifax	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	squints	squint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 board	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 board	det
8	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squints	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sits	cc
10	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 squints	conj
11	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 sits	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 closer	cc
13	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 closer	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 notices	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 teacher	nmod:poss
16	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 notices	nsubj
17	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sits	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sits	conj
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 test	det
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 test	compound
23	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 glasses	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 glasses	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 glasses	case
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 glasses	amod
28	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sits	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 letters	det
30	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sharp	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 sharp	cop
32	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sits	parataxis
33	again	again	ADV	_	32 sharp	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 squints	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	squint	present	a boy in Halifax			at the board	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at board=Theme
2	sit	present	a boy in Halifax not said here			with new glasses; close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	notice	present	boy's teacher				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	present	boy	a eye test			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Patient
5	is	present	the letters		again	sharp property	tree rules

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:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:3.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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