--- title: Most of these are harmless, and a few hide a real truth: dim light j… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Most of these are harmless, and a few hide a real truth: dim light just makes eyes tired, carrots' vitamin A keeps healthy eyes working (but gives no night vision), and blind people often use sound with great skill they have trained. Who acts: Most, few, dim light, vitamin. 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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 (Most, few, dim light, vitamin), 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:3 # text = Most of these are harmless, and a few hide a real truth: dim light just makes eyes tired, carrots' vitamin A keeps healthy eyes working (but gives no night vision), and blind people often use sound with great skill they have trained. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 1 nmod _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ _ 10 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 22 carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod:poss 23 ' 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 A A NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 27 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 33 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 34 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 vision vision NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 41 often often ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 43 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 48 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 46 acl:relcl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Most of these | | | | | harmless *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hide** | present | a few | a real truth | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | dim light | eyes | | | | tired *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product | | 4 | **keep** | present | vitamin | healthy eyes | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **work** | gerund | healthy eyes *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **give** | present | | no night vision | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme | | 7 | **use** | present | blind people | sound | | | | with great skill; often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | | 8 | **train** | present · perfect | people | great skill *not said here* | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme | 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:3`. **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 ×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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/2/) - next →: [Eyes and ears, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/)