The optician and glasses, sentence 10
A squint, or strabismus, is when the eyes don't line up, and orthoptists, eye workers who help with squints and lazy eyes, may suggest glasses, patches or an operation.
Who acts: squint, eye workers, orthoptists · What happens: not be, help, suggest · To what, where: glasses
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 (squint, eye workers, orthoptists), 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 squint | det |
| 2 | squint | squint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 line | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 strabismus | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 strabismus | cc |
| 5 | strabismus | strabismus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 squint | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 squint | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 line | cop |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 line | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eyes | det |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 line | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 line | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 line | advmod |
| 13 | line | line | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 line | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 suggest | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 suggest | cc |
| 17 | orthoptists | orthoptist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 suggest | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 workers | punct |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 workers | compound |
| 20 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 orthoptists | appos |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 help | nsubj |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 workers | acl:relcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 squints | case |
| 24 | squints | squint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 help | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 eyes | cc |
| 26 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 squints | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 orthoptists | punct |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 suggest | aux |
| 30 | suggest | suggest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 line | conj |
| 31 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 suggest | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 patches | punct |
| 33 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 glasses | conj |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 operation | cc |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 operation | det |
| 36 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 glasses | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 line | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present · do-support | a squint or strabismus | line property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | eye workers | with squints and lazy eyes | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with squint=Theme | ||||
| 3 | suggest speech: suggest | may | orthoptists | glasses and patches or a operation | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent glass=Topic |
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:10.
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, R8-pos-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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