Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, sentence 1

Your brain can pay close attention to only a few things at once; when your eyes are on a screen, you can miss a car, a step or a friend waving right in front of you.

Who acts: brain, eyes, you, friend · What happens: pay, be, miss, wave · To what, where: close attention, screen, car

This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» of the everyday 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 (brain, eyes, you, friend), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brain	nmod:poss
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 attention	amod
6	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 things	case
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 things	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 things	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 attention	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	_	4 pay	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 screen	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 screen	advmod
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 screen	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 screen	cop
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 screen	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 screen	det
21	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 miss	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 miss	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 miss	aux
25	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pay	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 car	det
27	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 miss	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 step	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 step	det
30	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 car	conj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 friend	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 friend	det
33	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 step	conj
34	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 friend	acl
35	right	right	ADV	_	37 front	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 front	case
37	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 waving	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 you	case
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 front	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pay	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	can	Your brain	close attention		to a few things	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
2	is	present	your eyes		a screen		tree rules
3	miss	can	you	a car and a step or a friend			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus
4	wave	gerund	a friend not said here			in front of you	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=Theme

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:everyday:011-eyes-up.lesson:1.

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, 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.

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