The optician and glasses, sentence 4
Short sight, or myopia, means far things look blurry and near things clear, because the eye focuses light in front of the retina.
Who acts: Short sight, far things, eye · What happens: mean, look, focus · To what, where: things, light, front · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Short sight, far things, eye), 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 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sight | amod |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 myopia | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 myopia | cc |
| 5 | myopia | myopia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sight | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sight | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 look | nsubj |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 11 | blurry | blurry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 look | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 near | cc |
| 13 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blurry | conj |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 look | obj |
| 15 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 focuses | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 focuses | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eye | det |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 focuses | nsubj |
| 20 | focuses | focus | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | advcl |
| 21 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 focuses | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 front | case |
| 23 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 focuses | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 retina | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 retina | det |
| 26 | retina | retina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 front | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Short sight or myopia | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | present | far things | things | blurry property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Attribute | |||
| 3 | focus | present | the eye | light | front of the retina | tree rules |
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:4.
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. 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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