--- title: Your brain judges size and length by what surrounds a thing, so it c… — Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that foo… · tree and pragmatics description: Your brain judges size and length by what surrounds a thing, so it can be fooled: two equal lines with arrow ends look different (the Müller-Lyer illusion), and the moon looks huge near the horizon although it is about the same size all night. Who acts: brain, two equal lines, moon. 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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 (brain, two equal lines, moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:280-illusions-and-adverts.lesson:1 # text = Your brain judges size and length by what surrounds a thing, so it can be fooled: two equal lines with arrow ends look different (the Müller-Lyer illusion), and the moon looks huge near the horizon although it is about the same size all night. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 280-illusions-and-adverts.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): no change 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 judges judge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 9 surrounds surround VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 fooled fool VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 29 Müller Müller PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 Lyer Lyer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 illusion illusion NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 39 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 near near ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 horizon horizon NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 although although SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 46 about about ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 advcl _ _ 50 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 51 det _ _ 51 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod:unmarked _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **judge** | present | brain | Your size and length | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent size=Value | | 2 | **surround** | present | | a thing | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme | | 3 | **fool** | can · passive | | brain | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **look** | present | two equal lines with arrow ends | | | | | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **look** | present | the moon | | | | | huge *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **is a** | present | moon | the same size | | | night | about *property* | tree rules | 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:everyday:280-illusions-and-adverts.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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: [Illusions that fool the eye and advert…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/0/) - next →: [Illusions that fool the eye and advert…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/)