Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 15
Playing outdoors in daylight helps protect children's eyes from becoming short-sighted (seeing far-away things blurry).
Who acts: Playing · What happens: play, help, protect, become, sight, see · To what, where: daylight, eyes, things
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 (Playing), 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 | 5 helps | csubj |
| 2 | outdoors | outdoors | ADV | _ | 1 Playing | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 helps | case |
| 4 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obl |
| 5 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 helps | xcomp |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 children | case |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 protect | obj |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 becoming | mark |
| 11 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 protect | advcl |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sighted | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 short | punct |
| 14 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 becoming | xcomp |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeing | punct |
| 16 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 protect | advcl |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 away | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 far | punct |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 seeing | advmod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seeing | obj |
| 21 | blurry | blurry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 seeing | xcomp |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeing | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 helps | 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 | daylight | outdoors property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | present | Playing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | protect | infinitive | Playing not said here | children's eyes | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | become | gerund | Playing not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sight | participle | Playing not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | see | gerund | Playing not said here | things | away, blurry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=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:15.
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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