Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 12

Most people blink about 15 to 20 times a minute, each blink spreading tears like a wiper; staring at a screen makes you blink much less, so eyes feel dry.

Who acts: Most people, blink, staring, you, eyes · What happens: blink, spread, stare, make, feel · To what, where: tears, you

This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» 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 (Most people, blink, staring, you), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blink	nsubj
3	blink	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 15	advmod
5	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 20	case
7	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 15	nmod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blink	obl:unmarked
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 minute	det
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tears	punct
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 blink	det
13	blink	blink	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 minute	appos
14	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 blink	acl
15	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spreading	obj
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 wiper	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wiper	det
18	wiper	wiper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spreading	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 blink	punct
20	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 makes	csubj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 screen	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 screen	det
23	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 staring	obl
24	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blink	parataxis
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 makes	obj
26	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 makes	xcomp
27	much	much	ADV	_	28 less	advmod
28	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 blink	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 feel	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 feel	advmod
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 feel	nsubj
32	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 makes	conj
33	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 feel	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blink	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	blink	present	Most people		time		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spread	gerund	each blink not said here	tears		like a wiper	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Theme
3	stare	gerund				at a screen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme
4	make	present	staring	you			tree rules
5	blink	infinitive	you not said here			less property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	feel	present	eyes			dry 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, 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:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.lesson:12.

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 ×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.

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