--- title: Glasses bend light a little so that it focuses properly in eyes that… — Lenses and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: Glasses bend light a little so that it focuses properly in eyes that are slightly too long or too short; short-sighted people see near things well, long-sighted people see far things well. Who acts: Glasses, light, eyes, sighted people. A sentence of the lesson «Lenses and eyes» of the physics cours --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Lenses and eyes, sentence 9 Glasses bend light a little so that it focuses properly in eyes that are slightly too long or too short; short-sighted people see near things well, long-sighted people see far things well. **Who acts:** Glasses, light, eyes, sighted people · **What happens:** bend, focus, be, sight, see · **To what, where:** light, eyes, near things, things 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 (Glasses, light, eyes, sighted people), 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:9 # text = Glasses bend light a little so that it focuses properly in eyes that are slightly too long or too short; short-sighted people see near things well, long-sighted people see far things well. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bend bend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 so so SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 focuses focus VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 10 properly properly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 sighted sight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 27 near near ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 well well ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 compound _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 sighted sight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 36 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 37 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bend** | present | Glasses | light | | | | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material | | 2 | **focus** | present | light | | | eyes | | properly *property* | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | eyes | | | | | long, slightly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | eyes *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sight** | participle | | | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **see** | present | sighted people | near things | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 7 | **sight** | participle | | | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **see** | present | sighted people | things | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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: [Lenses and eyes, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/8/) - next →: [Lenses and eyes, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/)