Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 21
People blink less when staring at screens, which can make eyes feel dry and tired.
Who acts: People, screens, eyes · What happens: blink, stare, make, feel · To what, where: eyes
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 (People, screens, eyes), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blink | nsubj |
| 2 | blink | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 blink | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 staring | advmod |
| 5 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 blink | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 screens | case |
| 7 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 staring | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 screens | acl:relcl |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feel | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tired | cc |
| 16 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dry | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blink | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blink | present | People | less property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | People not said here | at screens | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | can | screens | eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | eyes not said here | 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:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:21.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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