Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 15

When two lines look different in length, measure them with a ruler, because the brain can be fooled by their surroundings.

Who acts: two lines, you, surroundings · What happens: look, measure, fool · To what, where: lines, brain

This is a sentence of the lesson «Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet» 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 (two lines, you, surroundings), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 look	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 lines	nummod
3	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 measure	advcl
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 length	case
7	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 different	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
9	measure	measure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 measure	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 ruler	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ruler	det
13	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 measure	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fooled	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 fooled	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brain	det
17	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fooled	nsubj:pass
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fooled	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 fooled	aux:pass
20	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 measure	advcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 surroundings	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 surroundings	nmod:poss
23	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 fooled	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 measure	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	two lines		different property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	measure	imperative	you not said here	lines = line	with a ruler	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value
3	fool	can · passive	lines's surroundings	the brain		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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:280-illusions-and-adverts.lesson:15.

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): no change. 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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