Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 8
Grown-ups limit children's screen time because too much can harm sleep, mood and play, though screens affect adults' sleep and mood too.
Who acts: Grown ups, much, screens, adults · What happens: limit, harm, affect, sleep · To what, where: sleep
This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life 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 (Grown ups, much, screens, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grown | grow | ADJ | _ | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ups | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 limit | nsubj |
| 4 | limit | limit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 time | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 children | case |
| 7 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 limit | obj |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 harm | mark |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 harm | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 harm | aux |
| 13 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 limit | advcl |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 harm | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mood | punct |
| 16 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sleep | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 play | cc |
| 18 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mood | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 affect | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 affect | mark |
| 21 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 affect | nsubj |
| 22 | affect | affect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 limit | advcl |
| 23 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 23 adults | case |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 affect | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mood | cc |
| 27 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sleep | conj |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 affect | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 limit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | limit | present | Grown ups | time | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 2 | harm | can | much | sleep and mood and play | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sleep=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | affect | present | screens | adults's sleep and mood | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sleep=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | sleep | adults | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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, 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:adult-life:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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