--- title: Looking at the Sun during an eclipse is not safe: even a sliver can… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Looking at the Sun during an eclipse is not safe: even a sliver can burn the retina (the seeing layer at the back of the eye), and it does not hurt while it happens; use proper eclipse glasses or a pinhole viewer. Who acts: Looking, sliver, it. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/14/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Eyes and ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/) / 14 # Eyes and ears, sentence 14 Looking at the Sun during an eclipse is not safe: even a sliver can burn the retina (the seeing layer at the back of the eye), and it does not hurt while it happens; use proper eclipse glasses or a pinhole viewer. **Who acts:** Looking, sliver, it · **What happens:** look, not be, burn, see, not hurt, happen · **To what, where:** retina, proper eclipse glasses This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths 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 (Looking, sliver, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:14 # text = Looking at the Sun during an eclipse is not safe: even a sliver can burn the retina (the seeing layer at the back of the eye), and it does not hurt while it happens; use proper eclipse glasses or a pinhole viewer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 003-eyes-and-ears.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 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 during during ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 eclipse eclipse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sliver sliver NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 retina retina NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 22 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 36 while while SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 41 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 eclipse eclipse NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 44 or or CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 pinhole pinhole NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 viewer viewer NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund | | | | | during a eclipse | at the Sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Looking | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **burn** | can | a sliver | the retina | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent retina=Theme | | 4 | **see** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **hurt** | present · do-support | sliver | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **happen** | present | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **use** | infinitive | | proper eclipse glasses or a pinhole viewer | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient | 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. 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