--- title: After about forty, the lens of the eye gets stiffer and close-up rea… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics description: After about forty, the lens of the eye gets stiffer and close-up reading becomes harder, so many grown-ups need reading glasses. Who acts: lens, up reading, many grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/) / 8 # Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 8 After about forty, the lens of the eye gets stiffer and close-up reading becomes harder, so many grown-ups need reading glasses. **Who acts:** lens, up reading, many grown ups · **What happens:** get, become, grow, need · **To what, where:** reading glasses This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (lens, up reading, many grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:8 # text = After about forty, the lens of the eye gets stiffer and close-up reading becomes harder, so many grown-ups need reading glasses. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 about about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lens lens NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 stiffer stiff ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 26 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | the lens of the eye | | | | after forty | stiff *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **become** | present | up reading | | | | | hard *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **need** | present | many grown ups | reading glasses | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/7/) - next →: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/)