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title: Walk out of a dark cinema into bright sunshine and you squint: the b… — Senses: eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: Walk out of a dark cinema into bright sunshine and you squint: the black dot in your eye, the pupil, shrinks fast, because the coloured ring around it, the iris, is a muscle that lets in less light. Who acts: you, coloured ring, muscle. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: eyes and ears» of the biology
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# Senses: eyes and ears, sentence 1

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Walk out of a dark cinema into bright sunshine and you squint: the black dot in your eye, the pupil, shrinks fast, because the coloured ring around it, the iris, is a muscle that lets in less light.

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**Who acts:** you, coloured ring, muscle · **What happens:** walk out, squint, shrink, be, let · **To what, where:** dark cinema, bright sunshine, black dot, muscle, less light

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: eyes and ears» of the biology 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 (you, coloured ring, muscle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.lesson:1
# text = Walk out of a dark cinema into bright sunshine and you squint: the black dot in your eye, the pupil, shrinks fast, because the coloured ring around it, the iris, is a muscle that lets in less light.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 069-senses-eyes-and-ears.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cinema	cinema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	squint	squint	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dot	dot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
25	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
31	around	around	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	iris	iris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	amod	_	_
44	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk out** | imperative | you *not said here* | a dark cinema |  | bright sunshine |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cinema=Attribute |
| 2 | **squint** | present | you | the black dot and the pupil |  |  |  | in your eye | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dot=Patient in eye=Theme |
| 3 | **shrink** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the coloured ring around pupil | a muscle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | present | a muscle |  |  | less light |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R7-rel-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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