Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 18
Holding a screen nearer eye level and sitting back supported is easier on the neck.
Who acts: Holding · What happens: hold, sit back, support, be · 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 (Holding), 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 | Holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 easier | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 screen | det |
| 3 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Holding | obj |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 level | amod |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 level | compound |
| 6 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 screen | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sitting | cc |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Holding | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 supported | advmod |
| 10 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sitting | advcl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 easier | cop |
| 12 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 neck | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 neck | det |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 easier | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | a screen nearer eye level | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit back | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | support | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | Holding | the neck | easy property | 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:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:18.
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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