Lenses and eyes, sentence 5
A magnifying glass is thicker in the middle and bends light inwards, making small things look bigger.
Who acts: magnifying glass, small things · What happens: magnify, be, bend, make, look · To what, where: middle, light
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 (magnifying glass, small things), 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 | 3 glass | det |
| 2 | magnifying | magnify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 glass | amod |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thicker | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thicker | cop |
| 5 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thicker | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bends | cc |
| 10 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thicker | conj |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bends | obj |
| 12 | inwards | inwards | ADV | _ | 10 bends | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 making | punct |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 bends | advcl |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 look | nsubj |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 making | conj |
| 18 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 look | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thicker | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | magnify | gerund | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | a magnifying glass | the middle | thick property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bend | present | a magnifying glass not said here | light | inwards property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material | |||
| 4 | make | gerund | a magnifying glass not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | look | present | small things | big property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:physics:022-lenses-and-eyes.lesson:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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