--- title: An old dog's cloudy blue eyes often mean the lens has just hardened… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics description: An old dog's cloudy blue eyes often mean the lens has just hardened with age and the dog can still see, but sometimes it is a cataract that blocks sight, so the vet checks. Who acts: cloudy blue eyes, lens, dog, cataract. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloudy blue eyes, lens, dog, cataract), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:10 # text = An old dog's cloudy blue eyes often mean the lens has just hardened with age and the dog can still see, but sometimes it is a cataract that blocks sight, so the vet checks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.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): no change 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 cloudy cloudy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lens lens NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 just just ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 hardened harden VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 29 advmod _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 cataract cataract NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 blocks block VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a old dog's cloudy blue eyes | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **harden** | present · perfect | the lens | | | | with age | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with age=Instrument | | 3 | **see** | can | the dog | | | | still | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | lens | a cataract | | | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **block** | present | a cataract | sight | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sight=Theme | | 6 | **check** | present | the vet | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:biology:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:10`. **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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