Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 2
When you stare at a screen your eyes focus close for a long time and you blink less, so they get tired and dry; the 20-20-20 rule helps: every 20 minutes look at something about 20 feet (6 metres) away for 20 seconds.
Who acts: you, eyes, 20-20-20 rule · What happens: stare, focus, blink, get, help, look
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 (you, eyes, 20-20-20 rule), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 stare | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 stare | nsubj |
| 3 | stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 helps | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 screen | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 screen | det |
| 6 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stare | obl |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 focus | nsubj |
| 9 | focus | focus | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stare | conj |
| 10 | close | close | ADV | _ | 9 focus | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 focus | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blink | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 blink | nsubj |
| 17 | blink | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 focus | conj |
| 18 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 blink | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 blink | conj |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 get | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dry | cc |
| 25 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tired | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 helps | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rule | det |
| 28 | 20-20-20 | 20-20-20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 rule | nummod |
| 29 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 helps | nsubj |
| 30 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 look | punct |
| 32 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 minutes | det |
| 33 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 minutes | nummod |
| 34 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 look | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 helps | conj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 something | case |
| 37 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 look | obl |
| 38 | about | about | ADV | _ | 39 20 | advmod |
| 39 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 feet | nummod |
| 40 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 away | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 metres | punct |
| 42 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 metres | nummod |
| 43 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 feet | appos |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 metres | punct |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 look | advmod |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 seconds | case |
| 47 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 seconds | nummod |
| 48 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 look | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | present | you | at a screen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | focus | present | your eyes | time | close property | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | blink | present | you | less property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | present | eyes = eye | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | help | present | the 20-20-20 rule | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | look | present | the 20-20-20 rule not said here | minute; second | at something; away property | 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:008-posture-and-screens.lesson:2.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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