--- title: Your brain can pay close attention to only a few things at once; whe… — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics description: Your brain can pay close attention to only a few things at once; when your eyes are on a screen, you can miss a car, a step or a friend waving right in front of you. Who acts: brain, eyes, you, friend. 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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 (brain, eyes, you, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:011-eyes-up.lesson:1 # text = Your brain can pay close attention to only a few things at once; when your eyes are on a screen, you can miss a car, a step or a friend waving right in front of you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 011-eyes-up.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 once once ADV RB _ 4 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 miss miss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 waving wave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:acl 35 right right ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | can | Your brain | close attention | | | | to a few things | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | | 2 | **is** | present | your eyes | | | a screen | | | tree rules | | 3 | **miss** | can | you | a car and a step or a friend | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | | 4 | **wave** | gerund | a friend *not said here* | | | | | in front of you | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=Theme | 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:everyday:011-eyes-up.lesson:1`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/0/) - next →: [Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/11-eyes-up/)