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title: If an eye is a little too long or too short the picture lands in the… — Lenses and eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: If an eye is a little too long or too short the picture lands in the wrong place, and glasses bend the light just enough to put it right. Who acts: eye, picture, glasses. A sentence of the lesson «Lenses and eyes» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Lenses and eyes, sentence 3

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If an eye is a little too long or too short the picture lands in the wrong place, and glasses bend the light just enough to put it right.

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**Who acts:** eye, picture, glasses · **What happens:** be, land, bend, put · **To what, where:** little, wrong place, light, eye

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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: who acts (eye, picture, glasses), 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:3
# text = If an eye is a little too long or too short the picture lands in the wrong place, and glasses bend the light just enough to put it right.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl:unmarked
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bend	bend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	right	right	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **be** |  | a eye *not said here* | a little |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a eye |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **land** | present | the picture |  |  | the wrong place |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in place=Destination |
| 4 | **bend** | present | glasses | the light |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material |
| 5 | **put** | to-infinitive | glasses *not said here* | eye |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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: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 ×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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