Screens, eyes and sleep, sentence 9
Research suggests time outdoors in daylight lowers the risk of children becoming short-sighted.
Who acts: Research, time, children · What happens: suggest, lower, become, sight, risk · To what, where: risk, children · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Research, time, 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 | Research | research | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suggests | nsubj |
| 2 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lowers | nsubj |
| 4 | outdoors | outdoors | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 daylight | case |
| 6 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 7 | lowers | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 suggests | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 risk | det |
| 9 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lowers | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 risk | nmod |
| 12 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 children | acl |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sighted | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 short | punct |
| 15 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 becoming | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suggests | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | Research | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lower | present | time in daylight | the risk of children | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | gerund | children not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sight | participle | children not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | risk | children | nom risk «state transitive»: of=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: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): R5-strong ×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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