--- title: Staring at screens makes you blink less, so eyes get dry and tired,… — Screens, eyes and sleep · tree and pragmatics description: Staring at screens makes you blink less, so eyes get dry and tired, but screens don't permanently damage the eyes. Who acts: Staring, you, eyes, screens. 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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 (Staring, you, eyes, screens), 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:5 # text = Staring at screens makes you blink less, so eyes get dry and tired, but screens don't permanently damage the eyes. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Staring stare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 4 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 blink blink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 permanently permanently ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 damage damage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stare** | gerund | | | | | | at screens | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | Staring | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **blink** | infinitive | you | | | | | less *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | present | eyes | | | | | dry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **damage** | present · do-support | screens | the eyes | | | | permanently *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | 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:medicine:035-screens-eyes-and-sleep.lesson:5`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Screens, eyes and sleep, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/4/) - next →: [Screens, eyes and sleep, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/)