--- title: A girl in Brisbane spent almost every afternoon hunched over a phone… — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Brisbane spent almost every afternoon hunched over a phone indoors; she started to find the board at school blurry, and the eye doctor said she needed glasses and more time outside. Who acts: girl, eye doctor, doctor. 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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 (girl, eye doctor, doctor), 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:6 # text = A girl in Brisbane spent almost every afternoon hunched over a phone indoors; she started to find the board at school blurry, and the eye doctor said she needed glasses and more time outside. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Brisbane Brisbane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 6 almost almost ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 9 hunched hunch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 10 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 blurry blurry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 32 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 amod _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 outside outside ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | participle | | a girl in Brisbane *not said here* | | | afternoon | almost *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hunch** | participle | | | | a phone | | indoors *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over phone=Location | | 3 | **start** | past | a girl in Brisbane | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | a girl in Brisbane *not said here* | the board | | school | | blurry *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent board=Theme at school=Asset | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the eye doctor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **need** | past | doctor | glasses and more time | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme | 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:6`. **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 ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/5/) - next →: [Posture, screens and resting your eyes, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/)