Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 5

Priya's eyes went blurry after a long game, because people blink less when they stare at a screen and eyes get tired from looking at something close for a long time.

Who acts: eyes, people · What happens: go, blink, stare, get, look

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 (eyes, people), 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	Priya	Priya	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eyes	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Priya	case
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	blurry	blurry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 game	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 game	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 game	amod
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blink	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 blink	mark
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 blink	nsubj
13	blink	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl
14	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 blink	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 stare	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stare	nsubj
17	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 blink	advcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 screen	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 screen	det
20	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stare	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 get	cc
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 get	nsubj
23	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
24	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 get	xcomp
25	from	from	SCONJ	_	26 looking	mark
26	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 tired	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 something	case
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 looking	obl
29	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 something	amod
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 time	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 time	det
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 looking	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Priya's eyes	after a long game	blurry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blink	present	people		less property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stare	present	people		at a screen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme
4	get	present	eyes		tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	look	gerund	eyes not said here	time	at something	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at something=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:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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