The optician and glasses, sentence 5

An optometrist tests vision with a letter chart whose lines get smaller, then looks into the eye and uses lenses to find the right prescription.

Who acts: optometrist, lines · What happens: test, get, look, use, find · To what, where: vision, lenses, right prescription

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, lines), 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 tests	nsubj
3	tests	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tests	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 chart	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chart	det
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chart	compound
8	chart	chart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tests	obl
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 lines	nmod:poss
10	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	nsubj
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 chart	acl:relcl
12	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 get	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looks	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 looks	advmod
15	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tests	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 eye	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eye	det
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looks	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 uses	cc
20	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 looks	conj
21	lenses	lens	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 uses	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 uses	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 prescription	det
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 prescription	amod
26	prescription	prescription	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tests	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	test	present	a optometrist	vision		with a letter chart	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme
2	get	present	lines			small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	look	present	a optometrist not said here		then	into the eye	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme
4	use	present	a optometrist not said here	lenses			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lens=Patient
5	find	to-infinitive	a optometrist not said here	the right prescription			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prescription=Topic

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:5.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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