Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 17
Sitting hunched with your head bent forward over a screen strains the neck and back.
Who acts: head, Sitting · What happens: sit, hunch, bent, strain · To what, where: screen, neck
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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 (head, Sitting), 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 | Sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 strains | csubj |
| 2 | hunched | hunch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Sitting | xcomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bent | nsubj |
| 6 | bent | bent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 hunched | advcl |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 bent | advmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 screen | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 screen | det |
| 10 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bent | obl |
| 11 | strains | strain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 neck | det |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strains | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 back | cc |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 neck | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 strains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | hunch | participle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bent | participle | your head | a screen | forward property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | strain | present | Sitting | the neck and back | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent neck=Source |
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:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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