--- title: The lens in the eye works like a magnifying glass and makes an upsid… — Senses: eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: The lens in the eye works like a magnifying glass and makes an upside-down picture on the retina at the back of the eye, and the brain turns it the right way up. Who acts: lens, 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 (lens, brain), 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:6 # text = The lens in the eye works like a magnifying glass and makes an upside-down picture on the retina at the back of the eye, and the brain turns it the right way up. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lens lens NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 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 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 retina retina NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 up up ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | the lens in the eye | | | | | like a magnifying glass | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **magnify** | gerund | | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | the lens in the eye *not said here* | a upside down picture | | the retina at the back of the eye | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product | | 4 | **turn** | present | the brain | lens | | | | the right way *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:6`. **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): 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/5/) - next →: [Senses: eyes and ears, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/)