Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 9
A good screen is about an arm's length away, with its top near eye level.
Who acts: good screen · What happens: be
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 (good screen), 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 | 3 screen | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 screen | amod |
| 3 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 length | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 length | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 length | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 arm | det |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 length | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 arm | case |
| 9 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 length | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 level | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 top | nmod:poss |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 length | obl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 level | case |
| 16 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 level | compound |
| 17 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 length | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a good screen | about a arm's length; with screen's top near eye level; away property | tree rules |
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:9.
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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