Eyes and ears, sentence 16
Squinting briefly makes the view sharper and does not damage eyes; needing to squint is a sign to get an eye test.
Who acts: Squinting, needing · What happens: squint, make, not damage, need, be, get · To what, where: view, eyes, sign, eye test
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 (Squinting, needing), 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 | Squinting | squint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 makes | csubj |
| 2 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 1 Squinting | advmod |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 view | det |
| 5 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | sharper | sharper | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 damage | cc |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 damage | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 damage | advmod |
| 10 | damage | damage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | conj |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 damage | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 13 | needing | need | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 sign | csubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 squint | mark |
| 15 | squint | squint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 needing | xcomp |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sign | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sign | det |
| 18 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sign | acl |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 test | det |
| 22 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 test | compound |
| 23 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squint | gerund | briefly property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Squinting | the view | sharper property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset view=Product | |||
| 3 | not damage | present · do-support | Squinting not said here | eyes | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | need | gerund | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | squint not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | needing | a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get | to-infinitive | Squinting not said here | a eye test | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer test=Stimulus |
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:16.
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): R8-pos-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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