--- title: His mum laughed, then showed him how to sit back with the screen hel… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics description: His mum laughed, then showed him how to sit back with the screen held up near eye level, so his head was not hanging forward. Who acts: mum, head. 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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 (mum, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:1 # text = His mum laughed, then showed him how to sit back with the screen held up near eye level, so his head was not hanging forward. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.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 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 6 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 near near ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 27 forward forward ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . 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 | **laugh** | past | Kai's mum | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **show** | past | Kai's mum *not said here* | | Kai | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **sit back** | to-infinitive | Kai's mum *not said here* | | | | | with the screen | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hold up** | participle | Kai's mum *not said here* | | | eye level | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **not** **hang** | past · progressive | Kai's head | | | | | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.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 ×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, backs and thumbs, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/0/) - next →: [Eyes, backs and thumbs, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/)