The optician and glasses, sentence 3
Glasses don't weaken your eyes or make them lazy; many children wear them, and the first day with them can feel like someone turned up the sharpness of the whole world.
Who acts: Glasses, many children, first day, someone · What happens: not weaken, make, wear, feel, turn up · To what, where: eyes, glasses, sharpness
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 (Glasses, many children, first day, someone), 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 | Glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weaken | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weaken | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 weaken | advmod |
| 4 | weaken | weaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weaken | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 make | cc |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 weaken | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 wear | punct |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 children | amod |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wear | nsubj |
| 14 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weaken | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wear | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feel | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 feel | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 feel | nsubj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 day | nmod |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 feel | aux |
| 24 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 weaken | conj |
| 25 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 27 turned | mark |
| 26 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 turned | nsubj |
| 27 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 feel | advcl |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 turned | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sharpness | det |
| 30 | sharpness | sharpness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turned | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 33 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 world | amod |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sharpness | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weaken | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not weaken | present · do-support | Glasses | your eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | Glasses not said here | glasses = glass | lazy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 3 | wear | present | many children | glasses = glass | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | ||||
| 4 | feel | can | the first day with glasses | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | turn up | past | someone | the sharpness of the whole world | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sharpness=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:3.
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): no change. 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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