Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 23
Playing with a bright screen in a dark room can cause eye strain and headaches, so a light on helps.
Who acts: Playing, light · What happens: play, cause, help · To what, where: dark room, eye strain
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 (Playing, light), 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 | Playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cause | csubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 screen | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 screen | det |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 screen | amod |
| 5 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obl |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 cause | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 room | amod |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obl |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cause | aux |
| 11 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strain | compound |
| 13 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cause | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 headaches | cc |
| 15 | headaches | headache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 strain | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 light | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 helps | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 light | det |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 helps | nsubj |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 light | advmod |
| 21 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cause | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | a dark room | with a bright screen | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with screen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cause | can | Playing | eye strain and headaches | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition strain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | help | present | a light | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:23.
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 ×4, R6-punct-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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