Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 6

A girl in Brisbane spent almost every afternoon hunched over a phone indoors; she started to find the board at school blurry, and the eye doctor said she needed glasses and more time outside.

Who acts: girl, eye doctor, doctor · What happens: spend, hunch, start, find, say, need · To what, where: girl, phone, board, school, glasses · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl, eye doctor, doctor), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 started	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Brisbane	case
4	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 girl	acl
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 spent	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 afternoon	det
8	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obl
9	hunched	hunch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 spent	advcl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 phone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 phone	det
12	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hunched	obl
13	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	9 hunched	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 started	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 started	nsubj
16	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 started	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 board	det
20	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 school	case
22	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 board	nmod
23	blurry	blurry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 find	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 doctor	det
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 doctor	compound
28	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 started	parataxis
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 needed	nsubj
31	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 said	ccomp
32	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 needed	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 time	cc
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 time	amod
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 glasses	conj
36	outside	outside	ADV	_	35 time	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 started	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	participle		a girl in Brisbane not said here		afternoon	almost property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hunch	participle			a phone		indoors property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over phone=Location
3	start	past	a girl in Brisbane					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	find	to-infinitive	a girl in Brisbane not said here	the board	school		blurry property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent board=Theme at school=Asset
5	say speech: assert	past	the eye doctor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	need	past	doctor	glasses and more time				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=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:6.

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, R7-rel-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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