--- title: Zara's optician asked her how long she plays. — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics description: Zara's optician asked her how long she plays. Who acts: optician. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Eyes, backs and thumbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/) / 10 # Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 10 Zara's optician asked her how long she plays. **Who acts:** optician · **What happens:** ask, play · **To what, where:** Zara · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (optician), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:10 # text = Zara's optician asked her how long she plays. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.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 Zara Zara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 optician optician NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Zara's optician | | Zara | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **play** | present | optician | | | | | long *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:10`. **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: [Eyes, backs and thumbs, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/9/) - next →: [Eyes, backs and thumbs, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/)