--- title: Where the optic nerve leaves the eye there are no light cells, so ea… — Senses: eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Where the optic nerve leaves the eye there are no light cells, so each eye has a small blind spot that the brain usually fills in so we do not notice it. Who acts: optic nerve, light cells, eye, 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 (optic nerve, light cells, eye, 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:7 # text = Where the optic nerve leaves the eye there are no light cells, so each eye has a small blind spot that the brain usually fills in so we do not notice it. # 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 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 optic optic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 9 expl _ _ 9 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 11 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 usually usually ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 in in PART RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 so so SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **leave** | present | the optic nerve | the eye | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 2 | **does** | present | no light cells | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | each eye | a small blind spot | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 4 | **fill in** | present | the brain | a small blind spot | | | | usually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient | | 5 | **not** **notice** | present · do-support | we | brain | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=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:7`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Senses: eyes and ears, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/6/) - next →: [Senses: eyes and ears, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/)