--- title: If you are told you need glasses, wear them as the optician (the per… — Eyes, ears and moving your body · tree and pragmatics description: If you are told you need glasses, wear them as the optician (the person who tests eyes and makes glasses) says, because they help you see clearly and learn better. Who acts: you, person, optician, glasses. 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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 (you, person, optician, glasses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:087-eyes-ears-and-moving.lesson:4 # text = If you are told you need glasses, wear them as the optician (the person who tests eyes and makes glasses) says, because they help you see clearly and learn better. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 087-eyes-ears-and-moving.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 wear wear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 optician optician NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 tests test VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 learn learn VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **need** | present | you | glasses | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme | | 3 | **wear** | imperative | you *not said here* | glasses *= glass* | | | | as the optician | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | | 4 | **test** | present | the person | eyes | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | the person *not said here* | glasses | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glass=Product | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the optician *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **help** | present | glasses *= glass* | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 8 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **learn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn learn-14-1 «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:087-eyes-ears-and-moving.lesson:4`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Eyes, ears and moving your body, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/3/) - next →: [Eyes, ears and moving your body, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/)