The brain, nerves and the five senses, sentence 17
The eye sees light that enters through the pupil; the lens focuses it at the back of the eye.
Who acts: eye, light, lens · What happens: see, enter, focus · To what, where: light, back
This is a sentence of the lesson «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the world 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, light, lens), 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 eye | det |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 enters | nsubj |
| 6 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 light | acl:relcl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 pupil | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pupil | det |
| 9 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enters | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 focuses | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lens | det |
| 12 | lens | lens | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 focuses | nsubj |
| 13 | focuses | focus | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sees | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 focuses | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 back | det |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 focuses | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 eye | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eye | det |
| 20 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 back | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the eye | light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | enter | present | light | through the pupil | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through pupil=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | focus | present | the lens | light | the back of the eye | tree rules |
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:world:034-brain-nerves-senses.lesson:17.
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): 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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