--- title: Sitting close to a modern screen does not damage your eyes (the warn… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Sitting close to a modern screen does not damage your eyes (the warning began with very old TVs, which gave off a little radiation); lots of screen time and little time outdoors are linked to short sight in children. Who acts: Sitting, warning, old TVs. 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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 (Sitting, warning, old TVs), 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:9 # text = Sitting close to a modern screen does not damage your eyes (the warning began with very old TVs, which gave off a little radiation); lots of screen time and little time outdoors are linked to short sight in children. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 damage damage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 TVs tv NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 off off ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 radiation radiation NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 outdoors outdoor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 linked link VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | gerund | | | | | | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **damage** | present · do-support | Sitting | your eyes | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 3 | **begin** | past | the warning | | | | | with old TVs | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with tv=Subeventuality | | 4 | **give off** | past | old TVs | a little radiation | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source radiation=Theme | | 5 | **link** | present · passive | | lots of screen time and time outdoors | | | | to short sight in children | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to sight=Co-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:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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: [Eyes and ears, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/8/) - next →: [Eyes and ears, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/)