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title: Theo's eyes felt scratchy and dry after a late game, and he was grum… — Sleep and school mornings · tree and pragmatics
description: Theo's eyes felt scratchy and dry after a late game, and he was grumpy until he slept more and played less. Who acts: eyes, eye. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and school mornings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleep and school mornings, sentence 8

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Theo's eyes felt scratchy and dry after a late game, and he was grumpy until he slept more and played less.

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**Who acts:** eyes, eye · **What happens:** feel, be, sleep, play

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and school mornings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:418-sleep-and-school-mornings.lesson:8
# text = Theo's eyes felt scratchy and dry after a late game, and he was grumpy until he slept more and played less.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 418-sleep-and-school-mornings.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	scratchy	scratchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Theo's eyes |  |  |  | after a late game | scratchy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | eye |  |  |  |  | grumpy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **play** | past | eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:418-sleep-and-school-mornings.lesson:8`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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