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title: Teasing about glasses is unkind and teachers deal with it; glasses a… — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics
description: Teasing about glasses is unkind and teachers deal with it; glasses are common and many famous people wear them. Who acts: Teasing, teachers, glasses, many famous people. A sentence of the lesson «The optician and glasses» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# The optician and glasses, sentence 14

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Teasing about glasses is unkind and teachers deal with it; glasses are common and many famous people wear them.

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**Who acts:** Teasing, teachers, glasses, many famous people · **What happens:** tease, be, deal, wear · **To what, where:** glasses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The optician and glasses» of the medicine 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 (Teasing, teachers, glasses, many famous people), 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:14
# text = Teasing about glasses is unkind and teachers deal with it; glasses are common and many famous people wear them.
# 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
1	Teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	deal	deal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **tease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about glasses | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Teasing |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deal** | present | teachers |  |  |  |  | with lens | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | glasses |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wear** | present | many famous people | glasses *= glass* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |

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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): R7-rel-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/).

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