Eyes and ears, sentence 3
Most of these are harmless, and a few hide a real truth: dim light just makes eyes tired, carrots' vitamin A keeps healthy eyes working (but gives no night vision), and blind people often use sound with great skill they have trained.
Who acts: Most, few, dim light, vitamin, healthy eyes, blind people · What happens: be, hide, make, keep, work, give · To what, where: real truth, eyes, healthy eyes, night vision, sound, great skill
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 (Most, few, dim light, vitamin), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 harmless | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 these | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Most | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 harmless | cop |
| 5 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 makes | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 makes | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 few | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hide | nsubj |
| 10 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 makes | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 truth | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 truth | amod |
| 13 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hide | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 light | punct |
| 15 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 light | amod |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 makes | nsubj |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 makes | advmod |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 harmless | conj |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 makes | obj |
| 20 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 keeps | punct |
| 22 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 A | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 carrots | case |
| 24 | vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 keeps | nsubj |
| 25 | A | A | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 vitamin | flat |
| 26 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 makes | parataxis |
| 27 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eyes | amod |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 keeps | obj |
| 29 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 keeps | xcomp |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 gives | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 gives | cc |
| 32 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 makes | parataxis |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 vision | det |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 vision | compound |
| 35 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gives | obj |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 gives | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 use | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 use | cc |
| 39 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 people | amod |
| 40 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 use | nsubj |
| 41 | often | often | ADV | _ | 42 use | advmod |
| 42 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 harmless | conj |
| 43 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 use | obj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 skill | case |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 skill | amod |
| 46 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 use | obl |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 trained | nsubj |
| 48 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 trained | aux |
| 49 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 skill | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 harmless | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most of these | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | present | a few | a real truth | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | present | dim light | eyes | tired property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product | |||
| 4 | keep | present | vitamin | healthy eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | work | gerund | healthy eyes not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | give | present | no night vision | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme | |||||
| 7 | use | present | blind people | sound | with great skill; often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | |||
| 8 | train | present · perfect | people | great skill not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=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:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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