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title: The real eye worry for today's children is short sight, which is bec… — Screens, eyes and sleep · tree and pragmatics
description: The real eye worry for today's children is short sight, which is becoming much more common, and studies suggest that time outdoors in daylight, a couple of hours a day, lowers the risk. Who acts: real eye worry, short sight, studies, time. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the me
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# Screens, eyes and sleep, sentence 1

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The real eye worry for today's children is short sight, which is becoming much more common, and studies suggest that time outdoors in daylight, a couple of hours a day, lowers the risk.

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**Who acts:** real eye worry, short sight, studies, time · **What happens:** be, become, suggest, lower · **To what, where:** short sight, risk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the medicine 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 (real eye worry, short sight, studies, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:035-screens-eyes-and-sleep.lesson:1
# text = The real eye worry for today's children is short sight, which is becoming much more common, and studies suggest that time outdoors in daylight, a couple of hours a day, lowers the risk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 035-screens-eyes-and-sleep.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	suggest	suggest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
25	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:unmarked	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	lowers	lower	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the real eye worry for today's children | short sight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | present · progressive | short sight |  |  |  |  | common *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | studies |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **lower** | present | time in daylight | the risk |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Theme |

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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:medicine:035-screens-eyes-and-sleep.lesson:1`.

**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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