--- title: Playing outdoors in daylight helps protect children's eyes from beco… — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics description: Playing outdoors in daylight helps protect children's eyes from becoming short-sighted (seeing far-away things blurry). Who acts: Playing. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/15/) [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/) / [Posture, screens and resting your eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/) / 15 # Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 15 Playing outdoors in daylight helps protect children's eyes from becoming short-sighted (seeing far-away things blurry). **Who acts:** Playing · **What happens:** play, help, protect, become, sight, see · **To what, where:** daylight, eyes, things 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 (Playing), 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:15 # text = Playing outdoors in daylight helps protect children's eyes from becoming short-sighted (seeing far-away things blurry). # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 2 outdoors outdoors ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 from from SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:xcomp 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 sighted sight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 17 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 21 blurry blurry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | | daylight | | | | outdoors *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **help** | present | Playing | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **protect** | infinitive | Playing *not said here* | children's eyes | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary | | 4 | **become** | gerund | Playing *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sight** | participle | Playing *not said here* | | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **see** | gerund | Playing *not said here* | things | | | | away, blurry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | 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:008-posture-and-screens.lesson:15`. **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: [Posture, screens and resting your eyes, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/14/) - next →: [Posture, screens and resting your eyes, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/)