Lenses and eyes, sentence 3

If an eye is a little too long or too short the picture lands in the wrong place, and glasses bend the light just enough to put it right.

Who acts: eye, picture, glasses · What happens: be, land, bend, put · To what, where: little, wrong place, light, eye

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 (eye, picture, glasses), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 short	mark
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 eye	det
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 short	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 short	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 long	obl:unmarked
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 short	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 short	cc
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 short	advmod
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lands	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 picture	det
13	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lands	nsubj
14	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 place	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 place	det
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 place	amod
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lands	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bend	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bend	cc
21	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bend	nsubj
22	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lands	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 light	det
24	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bend	obj
25	just	just	ADV	_	26 enough	advmod
26	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 bend	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 put	mark
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bend	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	right	right	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lands	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be		a eye not said here	a little			tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	a eye			short property	tree rules
3	land	present	the picture		the wrong place		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in place=Destination
4	bend	present	glasses	the light		enough property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material
5	put	to-infinitive	glasses not said here	eye		right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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: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 ×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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