--- title: Priya's eyes went blurry after a long game, because people blink les… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics description: Priya's eyes went blurry after a long game, because people blink less when they stare at a screen and eyes get tired from looking at something close for a long time. Who acts: eyes, people. 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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 (eyes, people), 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:5 # text = Priya's eyes went blurry after a long game, because people blink less when they stare at a screen and eyes get tired from looking at something close for a long time. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Priya Priya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 blurry blurry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 blink blink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 14 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stare stare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 from from SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 26 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj 29 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Priya's eyes | | | | after a long game | blurry *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **blink** | present | people | | | | | less *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stare** | present | people | | | | | at a screen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | | 4 | **get** | present | eyes | | | | | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **look** | gerund | eyes *not said here* | | | | time | at something | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at something=Theme | 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:5`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/3/) - next →: [Eyes, backs and thumbs, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/)