--- title: You blink about 15 to 20 times a minute to wet and clean your eyes,… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: You blink about 15 to 20 times a minute to wet and clean your eyes, the brain hides each dark moment, and staring at screens makes people blink less. Who acts: You, brain, staring, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, brain, staring, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:17 # text = You blink about 15 to 20 times a minute to wet and clean your eyes, the brain hides each dark moment, and staring at screens makes people blink less. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 blink blink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 7 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 wet wet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 21 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 25 staring stare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 csubj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 blink blink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **blink** | present | You | | | | time | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wet** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **clean** | infinitive | You *not said here* | your eyes | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 4 | **hide** | present | the brain | | | | moment | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stare** | gerund | | | | | | at screens | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present | staring | people | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **blink** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | less *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The human body deeper: the brain and n…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves/16/) - next →: [The human body deeper: the brain and n…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves/)