--- title: A magnifying glass is thicker in the middle and bends light inwards,… — Lenses and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: A magnifying glass is thicker in the middle and bends light inwards, making small things look bigger. Who acts: magnifying glass, small things. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Lenses and eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/) / 5 # Lenses and eyes, sentence 5 A magnifying glass is thicker in the middle and bends light inwards, making small things look bigger. **Who acts:** magnifying glass, small things · **What happens:** magnify, be, bend, make, look · **To what, where:** middle, light 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 (magnifying glass, small things), 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:5 # text = A magnifying glass is thicker in the middle and bends light inwards, making small things look bigger. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 magnifying magnify VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 thicker thick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 10 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 inwards inwards ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advcl 19 . . 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 | **magnify** | gerund | | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | a magnifying glass | | | the middle | | thick *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bend** | present | a magnifying glass *not said here* | light | | | | inwards *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material | | 4 | **make** | gerund | a magnifying glass *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **look** | present | small things | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/4/) - next →: [Lenses and eyes, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/)