The optician and glasses, sentence 0

Your eye is like a camera: the clear front and the lens bend light so it focuses in a sharp picture on the retina at the back.

Who acts: eye, clear front · What happens: be, bend, focus · To what, where: light, sharp picture

This is a sentence of the lesson «The optician and glasses» of the medicine 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 (eye, clear front), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eye	nmod:poss
2	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 camera	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 camera	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 camera	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 camera	det
6	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 camera	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 front	det
9	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 front	amod
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bend	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lens	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lens	det
13	lens	lens	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 front	conj
14	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 camera	parataxis
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bend	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 focuses	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 focuses	nsubj
18	focuses	focus	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bend	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 picture	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 picture	det
21	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 picture	amod
22	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 focuses	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 retina	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 retina	det
25	retina	retina	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 picture	nmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 back	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 back	det
28	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 retina	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 camera	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your eye			like a camera	tree rules
2	bend	present	the clear front and the lens	light			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material
3	focus	present	eye		a sharp picture on the retina at the back		vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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:medicine:027-the-optician-and-glasses.lesson:0.

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. 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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