--- title: Holding a screen nearer eye level and sitting back supported is easi… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics description: Holding a screen nearer eye level and sitting back supported is easier on the neck. Who acts: Holding. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Eyes, backs and thumbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/) / 18 # Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 18 Holding a screen nearer eye level and sitting back supported is easier on the neck. **Who acts:** Holding · **What happens:** hold, sit back, support, be · **To what, where:** screen, neck This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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 (Holding), 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:18 # text = Holding a screen nearer eye level and sitting back supported is easier on the neck. # 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): no change 1 Holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 5 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 supported support VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | gerund | | a screen nearer eye level | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=Theme | | 2 | **sit back** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **support** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | Holding | | | the neck | | easy *property* | 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:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:18`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Eyes, backs and thumbs, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/17/) - next →: [Eyes, backs and thumbs, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/)