Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness, sentence 5
More children are short-sighted now than 50 years ago, and many scientists think too little time outdoors in daylight is part of the reason.
Who acts: many scientists, little time · What happens: sight, think, be · To what, where: More children, part · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (many scientists, little time), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sighted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sighted | aux:pass |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sighted | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 short | punct |
| 6 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sighted | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 now | fixed |
| 9 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 now | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 think | cc |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 scientists | amod |
| 15 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 think | nsubj |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sighted | conj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 little | advmod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nsubj |
| 20 | outdoors | outdoors | ADV | _ | 19 time | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 daylight | case |
| 22 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 part | cop |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 think | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 reason | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 reason | det |
| 27 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sighted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sight | present · passive | More children | now | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | many scientists | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | little time in daylight | part | of the reason | tree rules |
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: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): no change. 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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