Lenses and eyes, sentence 14
A microscope uses two lenses, each making the picture bigger again, and shows that a drop of pond water is full of tiny living things.
Who acts: microscope, each, drop · What happens: use, make, show, be, live · To what, where: two lenses, picture · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lenses and eyes» of the physics 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 (microscope, each, drop), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 microscope | det |
| 2 | microscope | microscope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lenses | nummod |
| 5 | lenses | lens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uses | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 making | punct |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 making | nsubj |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lenses | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 picture | det |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obj |
| 11 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 making | xcomp |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 making | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shows | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shows | cc |
| 15 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 uses | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 full | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 drop | det |
| 18 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 water | compound |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drop | nmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 full | cop |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shows | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 things | case |
| 25 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 things | amod |
| 26 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 things | amod |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 full | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | a microscope | two lenses | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lens=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | each | the picture | again | big property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product | ||
| 3 | show | present | a microscope not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | a drop of pond water | of tiny living things; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:physics:022-lenses-and-eyes.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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