--- title: In a short-sighted eye the picture lands just in front of the retina… — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics description: In a short-sighted eye the picture lands just in front of the retina, so the board at school is a blur while the book on your desk is crisp. Who acts: picture, board, book. 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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 (picture, board, book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:027-the-optician-and-glasses.lesson:1 # text = In a short-sighted eye the picture lands just in front of the retina, so the board at school is a blur while the book on your desk is crisp. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 027-the-optician-and-glasses.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 sighted sight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 retina retina NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 blur blur NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 desk desk NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 crisp crisp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sight** | participle | | | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **land** | present | the picture | | | a sighted eye | | in front of the retina | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in eye=Destination | | 3 | **is a** | present | the board at school | a blur | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the book on your desk | | | | | crisp *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:medicine:027-the-optician-and-glasses.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [The optician and glasses, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/0/) - next →: [The optician and glasses, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/)