--- title: Curved mirrors change the picture: a mirror that bulges outwards sho… — Mirrors, shadows and colours · tree and pragmatics description: Curved mirrors change the picture: a mirror that bulges outwards shows a wide view, so it is used in car wing mirrors and shop corners. Who acts: Curved mirrors, mirror. A sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, shadows and colours» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/3/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Mirrors, shadows and colours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/) / 3 # Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 3 Curved mirrors change the picture: a mirror that bulges outwards shows a wide view, so it is used in car wing mirrors and shop corners. **Who acts:** Curved mirrors, mirror · **What happens:** curve, change, bulge, show, use · **To what, where:** picture, wide view, mirror, car wing mirrors This is a sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, shadows and colours» of the world 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 (Curved mirrors, mirror), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.lesson:3 # text = Curved mirrors change the picture: a mirror that bulges outwards shows a wide view, so it is used in car wing mirrors and shop corners. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 084-mirrors-shadows-colours.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Curved curve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 mirrors mirror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 bulges bulge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 outwards outward ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 mirrors mirror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 corners corner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **curve** | participle | | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 2 | **change** | present | Curved mirrors | the picture | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient | | 3 | **bulge** | present | a mirror | | | | | outward *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **show** | present | a mirror | a wide view | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent view=Recipient | | 5 | **use** | present · passive | | mirror | | car wing mirrors and shop corners | | | vn eat-39.1 «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:world:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.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): R8-pos-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: [Mirrors, shadows and colours, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/2/) - next →: [Mirrors, shadows and colours, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/)