--- title: Genes play a part in short sight, but studies show children who spen… — Posture and eyes for sporty kids · tree and pragmatics description: Genes play a part in short sight, but studies show children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to become short-sighted. Who acts: Genes, studies, children. 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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 (Genes, studies, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:11 # text = Genes play a part in short sight, but studies show children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to become short-sighted. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.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 ×3 1 Genes gene NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 outdoors outdoor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 20 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:xcomp 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 sighted sight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present | Genes | a part | | short sight | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 2 | **show** | present | studies | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spend** | present | children | time outdoors | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outdoor=Asset | | 4 | **is** | present | children | | | | | less, likely *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **become** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sight** | participle | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | 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:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:11`. **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 ×3. **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 and eyes for sporty kids, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/10/) - next →: [Posture and eyes for sporty kids, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/)