Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 19
Children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to become short-sighted.
Who acts: Children · What happens: spend, be, become · To what, where: time outdoors
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 (Children), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 spend | nsubj |
| 3 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Children | acl:relcl |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 outdoors | compound |
| 6 | outdoors | outdoor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spend | obj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 likely | cop |
| 8 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 likely | advmod |
| 9 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 become | mark |
| 11 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 likely | xcomp |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sighted | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sighted | punct |
| 14 | sighted | sight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 become | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 likely | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | Children | time outdoors | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outdoor=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Children | less, likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | to-infinitive | Children not said here | sight property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:19.
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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