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title: An optometrist finds out with letter charts, lights and lenses, and… — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics
description: An optometrist finds out with letter charts, lights and lenses, and glasses bend the light a little more or less so the picture lands right on the retina again. Who acts: optometrist, glasses, picture. A sentence of the lesson «The optician and glasses» of the medicine course of Mova's primary schoo
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# The optician and glasses, sentence 2

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An optometrist finds out with letter charts, lights and lenses, and glasses bend the light a little more or less so the picture lands right on the retina again.

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**Who acts:** optometrist, glasses, picture · **What happens:** find out, bend, land · **To what, where:** light, retina

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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 (optometrist, glasses, picture), 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:2
# text = An optometrist finds out with letter charts, lights and lenses, and glasses bend the light a little more or less so the picture lands right on the retina again.
# 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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	optometrist	optometrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	charts	chart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lenses	lens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bend	bend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
27	right	right	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	retina	retina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | present | a optometrist |  |  |  |  | with letter charts and lights and lenses | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bend** | present | glasses | the light |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material |
| 3 | **land** | present | the picture |  |  | the retina | again |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on retina=Destination |

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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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**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:2`.

**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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