Eyes and ears, sentence 9
Sitting close to a modern screen does not damage your eyes (the warning began with very old TVs, which gave off a little radiation); lots of screen time and little time outdoors are linked to short sight in children.
Who acts: Sitting, warning, old TVs · What happens: sit, not damage, begin, give off, link · To what, where: eyes, little radiation, lots
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths 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 (Sitting, warning, old TVs), 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 | Sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 damage | csubj |
| 2 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Sitting | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 screen | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 screen | det |
| 5 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 screen | amod |
| 6 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 close | obl |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 damage | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 damage | advmod |
| 9 | damage | damage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 damage | obj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 warning | det |
| 14 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 damage | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 TVs | case |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 old | advmod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 TVs | amod |
| 19 | TVs | tv | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 began | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 TVs | acl:relcl |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 gave | compound:prt |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 radiation | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 radiation | amod |
| 26 | radiation | radiation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 lots | punct |
| 29 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 linked | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 31 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 time | compound |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lots | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 outdoors | cc |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 time | amod |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 outdoors | compound |
| 36 | outdoors | outdoor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lots | conj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 linked | aux:pass |
| 38 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 damage | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 sight | case |
| 40 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 sight | amod |
| 41 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 linked | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 children | case |
| 43 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 sight | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 damage | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not damage | present · do-support | Sitting | your eyes | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the warning | with old TVs | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with tv=Subeventuality | ||||
| 4 | give off | past | old TVs | a little radiation | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source radiation=Theme | ||||
| 5 | link | present · passive | lots of screen time and time outdoors | to short sight in children | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to sight=Co-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:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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