--- title: People blink less when staring at screens, which can make eyes feel… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics description: People blink less when staring at screens, which can make eyes feel dry and tired. Who acts: People, screens, eyes. 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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 21 People blink less when staring at screens, which can make eyes feel dry and tired. **Who acts:** People, screens, eyes · **What happens:** blink, stare, make, feel · **To what, where:** eyes 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 (People, screens, eyes), 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:21 # text = People blink less when staring at screens, which can make eyes feel dry and tired. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 blink blink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 staring stare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 advcl _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 16 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blink** | present | People | | | | | less *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stare** | gerund | People *not said here* | | | | | at screens | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | | 3 | **make** | can | screens | eyes | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | eyes *not said here* | | | | | dry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:21`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/20/) - next →: [Eyes, backs and thumbs, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/)