Lenses and eyes, sentence 8
The pupil, the dark hole in the middle of your eye, grows bigger in the dark and smaller in bright light.
Who acts: pupil · What happens: grow
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 (pupil), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pupil | det |
| 2 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hole | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hole | amod |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pupil | appos |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hole | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 eye | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eye | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 middle | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pupil | punct |
| 14 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 grows | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dark | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dark | det |
| 18 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bigger | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 smaller | cc |
| 20 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 bigger | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 light | case |
| 22 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 light | amod |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smaller | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the pupil | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:8.
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): no change. 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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