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title: Reading in dim light or under the covers with a torch can make eyes… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: Reading in dim light or under the covers with a torch can make eyes tired or give a headache, but it does not permanently harm them. Who acts: Reading, headache. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Eyes and ears, sentence 6

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Reading in dim light or under the covers with a torch can make eyes tired or give a headache, but it does not permanently harm them.

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**Who acts:** Reading, headache · **What happens:** read, make, give, not harm · **To what, where:** dim light, eyes, headache, Eye

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths 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, headache), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:6
# text = Reading in dim light or under the covers with a torch can make eyes tired or give a headache, but it does not permanently harm them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 003-eyes-and-ears.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	13	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	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	covers	cover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	permanently	permanently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  |  |  | dim light or the covers with a torch |  |  | 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 | **give** | infinitive | Reading *not said here* | a headache |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **harm** | present · do-support | headache | Eye |  |  |  | permanently *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:6`.

**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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