The optician and glasses, sentence 13

A cataract is when the lens inside the eye becomes cloudy, usually with age, and surgeons replace it with a clear plastic lens in a short operation; cataracts are not catching and don't spread like a cold.

Who acts: cataract, surgeons, cataracts · What happens: be, replace, not catch, not spread · To what, where: lens, short operation

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 (cataract, surgeons, cataracts), 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 cataract	det
2	cataract	cataract	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 becomes	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 becomes	cop
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 becomes	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lens	det
6	lens	lens	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 becomes	nsubj
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 eye	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eye	det
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lens	nmod
10	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 becomes	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 age	punct
13	usually	usually	ADV	_	15 age	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 age	case
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cloudy	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 replace	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 replace	cc
18	surgeons	surgeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 replace	nsubj
19	replace	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 becomes	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 replace	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 lens	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lens	det
23	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lens	amod
24	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lens	compound
25	lens	lens	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 replace	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 operation	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 operation	det
28	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 operation	amod
29	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 replace	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 catching	punct
31	cataracts	cataract	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 catching	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 catching	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 catching	advmod
34	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 becomes	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 spread	cc
36	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 spread	aux
37	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 spread	advmod
38	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 catching	conj
39	like	like	ADP	_	41 cold	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 cold	det
41	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 spread	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 becomes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a cataract			become, cloudy property	tree rules
2	replace	present	surgeons	lens	a short operation	with a clear plastic lens	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme it=Location with lens=Co-Theme
3	not catch	present · progressive	cataracts				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not spread	present · do-support	cataracts not said here			like a cold	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:13.

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, 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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