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description: On a real head the eyes sit about halfway down; in perspective far things look smaller, and parallel lines seem to meet at a vanishing point. Who acts: eyes, things, parallel lines. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primar
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# Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★, sentence 11

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On a real head the eyes sit about halfway down; in perspective far things look smaller, and parallel lines seem to meet at a vanishing point.

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**Who acts:** eyes, things, parallel lines · **What happens:** sit about, look, seem, meet, vanish · **To what, where:** real head, vanishing point

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts 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 (eyes, things, parallel lines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:11
# text = On a real head the eyes sit about halfway down; in perspective far things look smaller, and parallel lines seem to meet at a vanishing point.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	perspective	perspective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
17	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	parallel	parallel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit about** | present | the eyes |  |  | a real head |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location |
| 2 | **look** | present | things |  |  |  |  | in perspective; far, small *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in perspective=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | present | parallel lines |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | parallel lines *not said here* |  |  | a vanishing point |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **vanish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:arts:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:11`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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