--- title: More children are short-sighted now than 50 years ago, and many scie… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness,… · tree and pragmatics description: More children are short-sighted now than 50 years ago, and many scientists think too little time outdoors in daylight is part of the reason. Who acts: many scientists, little time. 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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 (many scientists, little time), 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:5 # text = More children are short-sighted now than 50 years ago, and many scientists think too little time outdoors in daylight is part of the reason. # 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): no change 1 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 4 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 sighted sight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 too too ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 outdoors outdoors ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sight** | present · passive | | More children | | | now | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | many scientists | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | little time in daylight | part | | | | of the reason | tree rules | 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:5`. **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): no change. **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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