Screens, eyes and sleep, sentence 5
Staring at screens makes you blink less, so eyes get dry and tired, but screens don't permanently damage the eyes.
Who acts: Staring, you, eyes, screens · What happens: stare, make, blink, get, not damage · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the medicine 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 (Staring, you, eyes, screens), 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 | Staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 makes | csubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 screens | case |
| 3 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Staring | obl |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 blink | nsubj |
| 6 | blink | blink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 blink | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | nsubj |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 makes | parataxis |
| 12 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 get | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tired | cc |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dry | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 damage | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 damage | cc |
| 17 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 damage | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 damage | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 damage | advmod |
| 20 | permanently | permanently | ADV | _ | 21 damage | advmod |
| 21 | damage | damage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 makes | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 eyes | det |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 damage | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | gerund | at screens | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Staring | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | blink | infinitive | you | less property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | present | eyes | dry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not damage | present · do-support | screens | the eyes | permanently property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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:medicine:035-screens-eyes-and-sleep.lesson:5.
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 ×2. 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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