--- title: Playing with a bright screen in a dark room can cause eye strain and… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics description: Playing with a bright screen in a dark room can cause eye strain and headaches, so a light on helps. Who acts: Playing, light. 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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 23 Playing with a bright screen in a dark room can cause eye strain and headaches, so a light on helps. **Who acts:** Playing, light · **What happens:** play, cause, help · **To what, where:** dark room, eye strain 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 (Playing, light), 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:23 # text = Playing with a bright screen in a dark room can cause eye strain and headaches, so a light on helps. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 2 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 in in SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nsubj 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 12 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 strain strain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 headaches headache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 on on ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 22 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | gerund | | a dark room | | | | with a bright screen | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with screen=Theme | | 2 | **cause** | can | Playing | eye strain and headaches | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition strain=Patient | | 3 | **help** | present | a light | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:23`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Eyes, backs and thumbs, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/22/) - next →: [Eyes, backs and thumbs, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/)