--- title: Every eye has a blind spot where the nerve leaves and there are no l… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics description: Every eye has a blind spot where the nerve leaves and there are no light cells; the brain fills in the hole, and an octopus eye, wired the other way round, has none. Who acts: eye, nerve, light cells, brain. 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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 (eye, nerve, light cells, brain), 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:9 # text = Every eye has a blind spot where the nerve leaves and there are no light cells; the brain fills in the hole, and an octopus eye, wired the other way round, has none. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 leaves leaf VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 13 expl _ _ 13 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 15 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 wired wire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj 34 round round ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 37 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | every eye | a blind spot | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 2 | **leaf** | present | the nerve | | | | | | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **does** | present | no light cells | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fill** | present | the brain | | | the hole | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **wire** | participle | a octopus eye *not said here* | the other way | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **have** | present | a octopus eye | none | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | 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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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