--- title: When a part works a little differently, such as an eyeball that is t… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics description: When a part works a little differently, such as an eyeball that is too long or colour cells that mix up red and green, things look blurry or the same, and glasses or a few tricks help. Who acts: part, eyeball, cells, things. 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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 (part, eyeball, cells, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.lesson:2 # text = When a part works a little differently, such as an eyeball that is too long or colour cells that mix up red and green, things look blurry or the same, and glasses or a few tricks help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advcl 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked 7 differently differently ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 12 case _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 eyeball eyeball NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 colour colour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 mix mix VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 red red ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:conj 29 blurry blurry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 40 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 41 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | a part | | | | | such a eyeball and cells; differently *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | a eyeball and cells | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | a eyeball and cells *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mix up** | present | cells | | | | | red *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **look** | present | things | | | | | blurry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **help** | present | glasses or a few tricks | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.lesson:2`. **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 ×5, 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. 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