--- title: Research suggests time outdoors in daylight lowers the risk of child… — Screens, eyes and sleep · tree and pragmatics description: Research suggests time outdoors in daylight lowers the risk of children becoming short-sighted. Who acts: Research, time, children. 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. --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Screens, eyes and sleep, sentence 9 Research suggests time outdoors in daylight lowers the risk of children becoming short-sighted. **Who acts:** Research, time, children · **What happens:** suggest, lower, become, sight, risk · **To what, where:** risk, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Research, time, children), 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:9 # text = Research suggests time outdoors in daylight lowers the risk of children becoming short-sighted. # 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 ×2 1 Research research NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 suggests suggest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 outdoors outdoors ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 lowers lower VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 risk risk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 becoming become VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:xcomp 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 sighted sight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Research | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **lower** | present | time in daylight | the risk of children | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Theme | | 3 | **become** | gerund | children *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sight** | participle | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **risk** | | | children | | | | | nom risk «state transitive»: of=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:9`. **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 ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/8/) - next →: [Screens, eyes and sleep, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/)