---
title: Reading in dim light can make eyes tired but doesn't ruin eyesight. — Screens, eyes and sleep · tree and pragmatics
description: Reading in dim light can make eyes tired but doesn't ruin eyesight. Who acts: Reading. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Screens, eyes and sleep](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/) / 8

# Screens, eyes and sleep, sentence 8

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Reading in dim light can make eyes tired but doesn't ruin eyesight.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Reading · **What happens:** read, make, not ruin · **To what, where:** dim light, eyes, eyesight

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Reading), 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:8
# text = Reading in dim light can make eyes tired but doesn't ruin eyesight.
# 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	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	eyesight	eyesight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  |  |  | dim light |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | can | Reading | eyes |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product |
| 3 | **not** **ruin** | present · do-support | Reading *not said here* | eyesight |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyesight=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:8`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Screens, eyes and sleep, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/6/)
- next →: [Screens, eyes and sleep, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/9/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/)