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title: An eclipse of the Sun is watched only with special eclipse glasses o… — Lenses and eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: An eclipse of the Sun is watched only with special eclipse glasses or a pinhole projector. A sentence of the lesson «Lenses and eyes» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lenses and eyes, sentence 11

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An eclipse of the Sun is watched only with special eclipse glasses or a pinhole projector.

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**What happens:** watch, eclipse · **To what, where:** eclipse, Sun

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lenses and eyes» of the physics 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: 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:11
# text = An eclipse of the Sun is watched only with special eclipse glasses or a pinhole projector.
# 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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	pinhole	pinhole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	projector	projector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **watch** | present · passive |  | a eclipse of the Sun |  |  |  | with special eclipse glasses or a pinhole projector | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **eclipse** |  |  | the Sun |  |  |  |  | nom eclipse «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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:physics:022-lenses-and-eyes.lesson:11`.

**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/).

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