--- title: Inside the eye a lens, like a magnifying glass, throws an upside-dow… — Senses: eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Inside the eye a lens, like a magnifying glass, throws an upside-down picture onto the back of the eye, and the brain turns it the right way up and even fills in a small blind spot where you see nothing at all. Who acts: lens, brain, you. 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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 (lens, brain, you), 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:2 # text = Inside the eye a lens, like a magnifying glass, throws an upside-down picture onto the back of the eye, and the brain turns it the right way up and even fills in a small blind spot where you see nothing at all. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Inside inside ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 lens lens NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 magnifying magnify VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 12 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 down down ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 18 onto onto ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 up up ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 even even ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 44 advmod _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 44 obj _ _ 46 at at ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 45 nmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **magnify** | gerund | | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **throw** | present | a lens like a magnifying glass | a upside down picture | | the eye | | onto the back of the eye | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent picture=Theme inside eye=Destination | | 3 | **turn** | present | the brain | lens | | | | the right way *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **fill** | present | the brain *not said here* | | | a small blind spot | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **see** | present | you | nothing | | all | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | 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:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Senses: eyes and ears, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/1/) - next →: [Senses: eyes and ears, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/)