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title: Her dad taught her the 20-20-20 rule: every twenty minutes, look at… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Her dad taught her the 20-20-20 rule: every twenty minutes, look at something about twenty feet away (about six metres, like the far side of a big room) for twenty seconds. Who acts: dad. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 6

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Her dad taught her the 20-20-20 rule: every twenty minutes, look at something about twenty feet away (about six metres, like the far side of a big room) for twenty seconds.

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**Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** teach, look · **To what, where:** 20-20-20 rule, Priya

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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 (dad), 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:6
# text = Her dad taught her the 20-20-20 rule: every twenty minutes, look at something about twenty feet away (about six metres, like the far side of a big room) for twenty seconds.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	20-20-20	20-20-20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nummod
7	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Priya's dad | the 20-20-20 rule | Priya |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient rule=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | Priya's dad *not said here* |  |  |  | minute; second | at something | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at something=Theme |

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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.

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**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, 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/).

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