--- title: A squint, or strabismus, is when the eyes don't line up, and orthopt… — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics description: A squint, or strabismus, is when the eyes don't line up, and orthoptists, eye workers who help with squints and lazy eyes, may suggest glasses, patches or an operation. Who acts: squint, eye workers, orthoptists. 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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 (squint, eye workers, orthoptists), 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:10 # text = A squint, or strabismus, is when the eyes don't line up, and orthoptists, eye workers who help with squints and lazy eyes, may suggest glasses, patches or an operation. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 squint squint NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:outer _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 strabismus strabismus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 line line VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 17 orthoptists orthoptist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 squints squint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 29 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 suggest suggest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 31 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 operation operation NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present · do-support | a squint or strabismus | | | | | line *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | eye workers | | | | | with squints and lazy eyes | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with squint=Theme | | 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | may | orthoptists | glasses and patches or a operation | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent glass=Topic | 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: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): 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: [The optician and glasses, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/9/) - next →: [The optician and glasses, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/)