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title: Eye tests are free for children in the UK, and an optician can answe… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: Eye tests are free for children in the UK, and an optician can answer most eye myths. Who acts: Eye tests, optician. 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.
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# Eyes and ears, sentence 17

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Eye tests are free for children in the UK, and an optician can answer most eye myths.

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**Who acts:** Eye tests, optician · **What happens:** be, answer · **To what, where:** most eye myths

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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 (Eye tests, optician), 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:17
# text = Eye tests are free for children in the UK, and an optician can answer most eye myths.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Eye	Eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	optician	optician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
17	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Eye tests |  |  |  |  | for children in the UK; free *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | can | a optician | most eye myths |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent myth=Eventuality |

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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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**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:17`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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/).

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