--- title: He got headaches, and when he switched on a lamp they went away, bec… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics description: He got headaches, and when he switched on a lamp they went away, because a bright screen in a dark room is hard on the eyes. Who acts: Theo, headaches, bright screen. 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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 (Theo, headaches, bright screen), 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:8 # text = He got headaches, and when he switched on a lamp they went away, because a bright screen in a dark room is hard on the eyes. # 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 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 headaches headache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 switched switch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 25 mark _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **get** | past | Theo | headaches | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headache=Stimulus | | 2 | **switch** | past | Theo | | | a lamp | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **go away** | past | headaches *= headache* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a bright screen in a dark room | | | the eyes | | hard *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:8`. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/7/) - next →: [Eyes, backs and thumbs, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/)