The optician and glasses, sentence 1

In a short-sighted eye the picture lands just in front of the retina, so the board at school is a blur while the book on your desk is crisp.

Who acts: picture, board, book · What happens: sight, land, be · To what, where: sighted eye, blur

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 (picture, board, book), 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	In	in	ADP	_	6 eye	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eye	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sighted	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 short	punct
5	sighted	sight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 eye	amod
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lands	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 picture	det
8	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lands	nsubj
9	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 front	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 front	case
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lands	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 retina	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 retina	det
15	retina	retina	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 front	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 blur	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	24 blur	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 board	det
19	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 blur	nsubj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 school	case
21	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 board	nmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 blur	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 blur	det
24	blur	blur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lands	parataxis
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 crisp	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 book	det
27	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crisp	nsubj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 desk	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 desk	nmod:poss
30	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 book	nmod
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 crisp	cop
32	crisp	crisp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 blur	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lands	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sight	participle					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	land	present	the picture		a sighted eye	in front of the retina	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in eye=Destination
3	is a	present	the board at school	a blur			tree rules
4	is	present	the book on your desk			crisp 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:medicine:027-the-optician-and-glasses.lesson:1.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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