--- title: Hold a magnifying glass over an ant and the bent light makes the ant… — Lenses and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: Hold a magnifying glass over an ant and the bent light makes the ant look huge, but the same lens can gather sunlight into a tiny burning spot, so it is never pointed at the Sun or anything alive. Who acts: you, bent light, ant, same lens. 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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 (you, bent light, ant, same lens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:022-lenses-and-eyes.lesson:1 # text = Hold a magnifying glass over an ant and the bent light makes the ant look huge, but the same lens can gather sunlight into a tiny burning spot, so it is never pointed at the Sun or anything alive. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 022-lenses-and-eyes.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): no change 1 Hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 magnifying magnify VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 bent bent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 16 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 lens lens NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 gather gather VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 24 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 burning burning NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 34 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 pointed point VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 38 conj _ _ 41 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | a magnifying glass | | a ant | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent glass=Theme over ant=Location | | 2 | **magnify** | gerund | | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | the bent light | the ant | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | infinitive | the ant *not said here* | | | | | huge *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **gather** | can | the same lens | sunlight | | | | into a tiny burning spot | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient into spot=Co-Patient | | 6 | **not** **point** | present · passive | | lens | | the Sun | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:physics:022-lenses-and-eyes.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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: [Lenses and eyes, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/0/) - next →: [Lenses and eyes, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/)