--- title: A boy in Arizona looked straight at the Sun during an eclipse; it bu… — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Arizona looked straight at the Sun during an eclipse; it burned a spot in his eye and his eyesight was damaged for life. Who acts: boy, eclipse. 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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 (boy, eclipse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:22 # text = A boy in Arizona looked straight at the Sun during an eclipse; it burned a spot in his eye and his eyesight was damaged for life. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Arizona Arizona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 straight straight ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 during during ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 eclipse eclipse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eyesight eyesight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 damaged damage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | a boy in Arizona | | | | during a eclipse | at the Sun; straight *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme | | 2 | **burn** | past | eclipse | a spot | | boy's eye | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | | 3 | **damage** | past · passive | | boy's eyesight | | | | for life | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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](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. 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