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title: Children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to become shor… — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: Children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to become short-sighted. Who acts: Children. 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 19

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Children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to become short-sighted.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** spend, be, become · **To what, where:** time outdoors

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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 (Children), 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:19
# text = Children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to become short-sighted.
# 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): no change
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	outdoors	outdoor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sighted	sight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **spend** | present | Children | time outdoors |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outdoor=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | less, likely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sight *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:19`.

**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/).

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