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title: Zara went red and felt a bit nervous, but her eyes were fine; the op… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Zara went red and felt a bit nervous, but her eyes were fine; the optician just said to keep taking breaks and come back for regular checks. Who acts: Zara, eyes, optician. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 11

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Zara went red and felt a bit nervous, but her eyes were fine; the optician just said to keep taking breaks and come back for regular checks.

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**Who acts:** Zara, eyes, optician · **What happens:** go, feel, be, say, keep, take · **To what, where:** breaks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Zara, eyes, 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:11
# text = Zara went red and felt a bit nervous, but her eyes were fine; the optician just said to keep taking breaks and come back for regular checks.
# 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	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	optician	optician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	checks	check	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Zara |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Zara *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nervous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | Zara's eyes |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the optician |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the optician *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | gerund | the optician *not said here* | breaks |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme |
| 7 | **come back** | infinitive | the optician *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for regular checks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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/).

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