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title: Glasses don't weaken your eyes or make them lazy; many children wear… — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics
description: Glasses don't weaken your eyes or make them lazy; many children wear them, and the first day with them can feel like someone turned up the sharpness of the whole world. Who acts: Glasses, many children, first day, someone. A sentence of the lesson «The optician and glasses» of the medicine course of
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# The optician and glasses, sentence 3

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Glasses don't weaken your eyes or make them lazy; many children wear them, and the first day with them can feel like someone turned up the sharpness of the whole world.

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**Who acts:** Glasses, many children, first day, someone · **What happens:** not weaken, make, wear, feel, turn up · **To what, where:** eyes, glasses, sharpness

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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 (Glasses, many children, first day, someone), 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:3
# text = Glasses don't weaken your eyes or make them lazy; many children wear them, and the first day with them can feel like someone turned up the sharpness of the whole world.
# 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): no change
1	Glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	weaken	weaken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
25	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	_
27	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sharpness	sharpness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **weaken** | present · do-support | Glasses | your eyes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | Glasses *not said here* | glasses *= glass* |  |  |  | lazy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 3 | **wear** | present | many children | glasses *= glass* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 4 | **feel** | can | the first day with glasses |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **turn up** | past | someone | the sharpness of the whole world |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sharpness=Theme |

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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): no change. **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.

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