The optician and glasses, sentence 11
Eye drops can widen the pupils so the optometrist can see inside the eye, and the blurriness wears off after a few hours; wide pupils let in more light, so bright sun can feel dazzling until then.
Who acts: Eye drops, optometrist, blurriness, wide pupils, bright sun · What happens: widen, see, wear off, let in, feel · To what, where: pupils, eye, more light
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 drops, optometrist, blurriness, wide pupils), 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 | Eye | Eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drops | compound |
| 2 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 widen | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 widen | aux |
| 4 | widen | widen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pupils | det |
| 6 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 widen | obj |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 optometrist | det |
| 9 | optometrist | optometrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 widen | advcl |
| 12 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 14 eye | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eye | det |
| 14 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 widen | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wears | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blurriness | det |
| 18 | blurriness | blurriness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wears | nsubj |
| 19 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 widen | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 wears | compound:prt |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 hours | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hours | det |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hours | amod |
| 24 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wears | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 pupils | punct |
| 26 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pupils | amod |
| 27 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wears | conj |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 pupils | acl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 let | compound:prt |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 light | amod |
| 31 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 let | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sun | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 bright | advmod |
| 34 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sun | amod |
| 35 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 feel | nsubj |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 feel | aux |
| 37 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wears | conj |
| 38 | dazzling | dazzle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 feel | xcomp |
| 39 | until | until | ADP | _ | 40 then | case |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 dazzling | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 widen | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | widen | can | Eye drops | the pupils | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pupil=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | can | the optometrist | the eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | wear off | present | the blurriness | hour | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | let in | present | wide pupils not said here | more light | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel | can | bright sun | dazzle property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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