Eyes and ears, sentence 14
Looking at the Sun during an eclipse is not safe: even a sliver can burn the retina (the seeing layer at the back of the eye), and it does not hurt while it happens; use proper eclipse glasses or a pinhole viewer.
Who acts: Looking, sliver, it · What happens: look, not be, burn, see, not hurt, happen · To what, where: retina, proper eclipse glasses
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths 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 (Looking, sliver, it), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 safe | csubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Sun | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sun | det |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 7 eclipse | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 eclipse | det |
| 7 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 safe | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 safe | advmod |
| 10 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 safe | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 sliver | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sliver | det |
| 14 | sliver | sliver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burn | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 burn | aux |
| 16 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 safe | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 retina | det |
| 18 | retina | retina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burn | obj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 layer | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 layer | det |
| 21 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 layer | amod |
| 22 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 retina | appos |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 back | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 back | det |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 layer | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 eye | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eye | det |
| 28 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 back | nmod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 layer | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hurt | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hurt | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hurt | nsubj |
| 33 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 hurt | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 hurt | advmod |
| 35 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 burn | conj |
| 36 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 happens | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 happens | nsubj |
| 38 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 hurt | advcl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 happens | punct |
| 40 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 safe | parataxis |
| 41 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 glasses | amod |
| 42 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 glasses | compound |
| 43 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 use | obj |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 viewer | cc |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 viewer | det |
| 46 | pinhole | pinhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 viewer | compound |
| 47 | viewer | viewer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 glasses | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | during a eclipse | at the Sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | Looking | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burn | can | a sliver | the retina | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent retina=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not hurt | present · do-support | sliver | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | happen | present | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | use | infinitive | proper eclipse glasses or a pinhole viewer | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient |
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:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:14.
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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