--- title: Most people blink about 15 to 20 times a minute, each blink spreadin… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics description: Most people blink about 15 to 20 times a minute, each blink spreading tears like a wiper; staring at a screen makes you blink much less, so eyes feel dry. Who acts: Most people, blink, staring, you. 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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 (Most people, blink, staring, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.lesson:12 # text = Most people blink about 15 to 20 times a minute, each blink spreading tears like a wiper; staring at a screen makes you blink much less, so eyes feel dry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.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): R5-strong ×2 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 blink blink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 8 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 blink blink NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 14 spreading spread VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 acl _ _ 15 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wiper wiper NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 20 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:csubj 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 blink blink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 much much ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blink** | present | Most people | | | | time | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **spread** | gerund | each blink *not said here* | tears | | | | like a wiper | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Theme | | 3 | **stare** | gerund | | | | | | at a screen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | staring | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **blink** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | less *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **feel** | present | eyes | | | | | dry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness.lesson:12`. **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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