--- title: Squinting briefly makes the view sharper and does not damage eyes; n… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Squinting briefly makes the view sharper and does not damage eyes; needing to squint is a sign to get an eye test. Who acts: Squinting, needing. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths 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/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/16/) [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/) / 16 # Eyes and ears, sentence 16 Squinting briefly makes the view sharper and does not damage eyes; needing to squint is a sign to get an eye test. **Who acts:** Squinting, needing · **What happens:** squint, make, not damage, need, be, get · **To what, where:** view, eyes, sign, eye test 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 (Squinting, needing), 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:16 # text = Squinting briefly makes the view sharper and does not damage eyes; needing to squint is a sign to get an eye test. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Squinting squint VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 briefly briefly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 sharper sharper ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:aux|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 damage damage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 needing need VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 squint squint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squint** | gerund | | | | | | briefly *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | Squinting | the view | | | | sharper *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset view=Product | | 3 | **not** **damage** | present · do-support | Squinting *not said here* | eyes | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 4 | **need** | gerund | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **squint** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | needing | a sign | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **get** | to-infinitive | Squinting *not said here* | a eye test | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer test=Stimulus | 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:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:16`. **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): 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: [Eyes and ears, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/15/) - next →: [Eyes and ears, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/)