The optician and glasses, sentence 2

An optometrist finds out with letter charts, lights and lenses, and glasses bend the light a little more or less so the picture lands right on the retina again.

Who acts: optometrist, glasses, picture · What happens: find out, bend, land · To what, where: light, retina

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 (optometrist, glasses, picture), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 optometrist	det
2	optometrist	optometrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 finds	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 charts	case
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 charts	compound
7	charts	chart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 finds	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lights	punct
9	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 charts	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lenses	cc
11	lenses	lens	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 charts	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bend	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bend	cc
14	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bend	nsubj
15	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 light	det
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bend	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 little	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 more	obl
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 bend	advmod
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 less	cc
22	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 more	conj
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 lands	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 picture	det
25	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lands	nsubj
26	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bend	advcl
27	right	right	ADV	_	30 retina	advmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 retina	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 retina	det
30	retina	retina	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lands	obl
31	again	again	ADV	_	26 lands	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	present	a optometrist				with letter charts and lights and lenses	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	bend	present	glasses	the light				vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material
3	land	present	the picture		the retina	again		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on retina=Destination

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:2.

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. 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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