Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 11
People blink less when they stare at a screen, so their eyes can feel dry.
Who acts: People, eyes · What happens: blink, stare, feel
This is a sentence of the lesson «Posture, screens and resting your eyes» 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, 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 | 6 stare | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stare | nsubj |
| 6 | stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 blink | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 screen | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 screen | det |
| 9 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stare | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 feel | advmod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 feel | aux |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 blink | conj |
| 16 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feel | xcomp |
| 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 | present | People | at a screen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | can | People's eyes | 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:008-posture-and-screens.lesson:11.
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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