--- title: A lazy eye, or amblyopia, means one eye has not developed sharp visi… — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics description: A lazy eye, or amblyopia, means one eye has not developed sharp vision, and covering the good eye with a patch makes the brain use the weaker one; treatment works best in early childhood, and if it's left untreated the weak eye's sight can stay poor for life. 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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 (lazy eye, one eye, covering, brain), 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:9 # text = A lazy eye, or amblyopia, means one eye has not developed sharp vision, and covering the good eye with a patch makes the brain use the weaker one; treatment works best in early childhood, and if it's left untreated the weak eye's sight can stay poor for life. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 amblyopia amblyopia NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 developed develop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ _ 14 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 vision vision NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 covering cover VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 weaker weak ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 35 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 34 advmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 childhood childhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 41 if if SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 advcl _ _ 45 untreated untreated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 xcomp _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod:poss _ _ 49 's 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 50 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 51 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 53 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 xcomp _ _ 54 for for ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a lazy eye or amblyopia | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **develop** | present · perfect | one eye | sharp vision | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Product | | 3 | **cover** | gerund | | the good eye | | | | with a patch | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with patch=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | covering | the brain | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | infinitive | the brain *not said here* | the weaker one | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 6 | **work** | present | treatment | | | | | in early childhood; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in childhood=Theme | | 7 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | treatment | | | | untreated *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 8 | **stay** | can | the weak eye's sight | | | | | poor *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **sight** | | the weak eye | | | | | | nom sight «cognition 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:9`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/8/) - next →: [The optician and glasses, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/)