--- title: Children's prescriptions often change as they grow, so regular eye t… — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics description: Children's prescriptions often change as they grow, so regular eye tests matter. Who acts: prescriptions, children, regular eye tests. A sentence of the lesson «The optician and glasses» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [The optician and glasses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/) / 7 # The optician and glasses, sentence 7 Children's prescriptions often change as they grow, so regular eye tests matter. **Who acts:** prescriptions, children, regular eye tests · **What happens:** change, grow, matter, prescribe 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 (prescriptions, children, regular eye tests), 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:7 # text = Children's prescriptions often change as they grow, so regular eye tests matter. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 prescriptions prescription NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 11 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 15 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Children's prescriptions | | | | | often *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **grow** | present | children *= child* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **matter** | present | regular eye tests | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **prescribe** | | Children | | | | | | nom prescription «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/6/) - next →: [The optician and glasses, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/)