Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 8

He got headaches, and when he switched on a lamp they went away, because a bright screen in a dark room is hard on the eyes.

Who acts: Theo, headaches, bright screen · What happens: get, switch, go away, be · To what, where: headaches, lamp, 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 (Theo, headaches, bright screen), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	headaches	headache	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 switched	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 switched	nsubj
8	switched	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 lamp	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lamp	det
11	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 switched	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 screen	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	25 hard	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 screen	det
18	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 screen	amod
19	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hard	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 room	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 room	det
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 room	amod
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 screen	nmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hard	cop
25	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 went	advcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 eyes	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 eyes	det
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hard	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	Theo	headaches			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headache=Stimulus
2	switch	past	Theo		a lamp		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	go away	past	headaches = headache			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	a bright screen in a dark room		the eyes	hard 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:8.

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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