--- title: The pupil is a hole that lets light into the eye; the coloured iris… — Senses: eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: The pupil is a hole that lets light into the eye; the coloured iris around it is a muscle that makes the pupil smaller in bright light and bigger in the dark. Who acts: pupil, hole, coloured iris, muscle. 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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 (pupil, hole, coloured iris, 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:5 # text = The pupil is a hole that lets light into the eye; the coloured iris around it is a muscle that makes the pupil smaller in bright light and bigger in the dark. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 iris iris NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 16 around around ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 xcomp _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | the pupil | a hole | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **let** | present | a hole | light | | the eye | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | the coloured iris around pupil | a muscle | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | a muscle | the pupil | | | | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pupil=Product | 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:5`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Senses: eyes and ears, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/2/) - next →: [Senses: eyes and ears, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/)