The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 17

You blink about 15 to 20 times a minute to wet and clean your eyes, the brain hides each dark moment, and staring at screens makes people blink less.

Who acts: You, brain, staring, people · What happens: blink, wet, clean, hide, stare, make · To what, where: eyes, people

This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: the brain and nerves» of the biology 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 (You, brain, staring, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 blink	nsubj
2	blink	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 15	advmod
4	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 20	case
6	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 15	nmod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blink	obl:unmarked
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 minute	det
9	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 times	nmod:unmarked
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wet	mark
11	wet	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 blink	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 clean	cc
13	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wet	conj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 clean	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hides	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 brain	det
18	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hides	nsubj
19	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 blink	conj
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 moment	det
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 moment	amod
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hides	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 makes	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hides	cc
25	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 makes	csubj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 screens	case
27	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 staring	obl
28	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 blink	conj
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 makes	obj
30	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 makes	xcomp
31	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 blink	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blink	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	blink	present	You		time		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wet	to-infinitive	You not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	clean	infinitive	You not said here	your eyes			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	hide	present	the brain		moment		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stare	gerund				at screens	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme
6	make	present	staring	people			tree rules
7	blink	infinitive	people not said here			less property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, 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:biology:260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:17.

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. 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.

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