Posture and eyes for sporty kids, sentence 11

Genes play a part in short sight, but studies show children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to become short-sighted.

Who acts: Genes, studies, children · What happens: play, show, spend, be, become, sight · To what, where: part, short sight, time outdoors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» 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 (Genes, studies, 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	Genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	nsubj
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 part	det
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sight	case
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sight	amod
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 show	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 show	cc
10	studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 show	nsubj
11	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 play	conj
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 likely	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 spend	nsubj
14	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 children	acl:relcl
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 outdoors	compound
17	outdoors	outdoor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spend	obj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 likely	cop
19	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 likely	advmod
20	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 show	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 become	mark
22	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 likely	xcomp
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sighted	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 short	punct
25	sighted	sight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 become	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 play	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	present	Genes	a part	short sight		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	show	present	studies				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spend	present	children	time outdoors			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outdoor=Asset
4	is	present	children			less, likely property	tree rules
5	become	to-infinitive	children not said here				tree rules
6	sight	participle	children not said here				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:11.

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 ×3. 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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