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title: Looking at something far away lets the focusing muscles of the eyes… — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking at something far away lets the focusing muscles of the eyes relax. Who acts: Looking, focusing muscles. A sentence of the lesson «Posture, screens and resting your eyes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 13

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Looking at something far away lets the focusing muscles of the eyes relax.

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**Who acts:** Looking, focusing muscles · **What happens:** look, let, focus, relax

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Posture, screens and resting your eyes» 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 (Looking, focusing muscles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:008-posture-and-screens.lesson:13
# text = Looking at something far away lets the focusing muscles of the eyes relax.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 008-posture-and-screens.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 ×2
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	focusing	focus	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	relax	relax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at something; away *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at something=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | present | Looking |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **focus** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **relax** | infinitive | the focusing muscles of the eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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:008-posture-and-screens.lesson:13`.

**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 ×2. **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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