Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness, sentence 17

A boy in Scotland played games on his phone in bed every night; he became so tired that he fell asleep in class and his grades dropped.

Who acts: boy, grades · What happens: play, become, fall, drop · To what, where: games, phone, class

This is a sentence of the lesson «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» of the everyday 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 (boy, grades), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Scotland	case
4	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 played	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 phone	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 phone	nmod:poss
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl:unmarked
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	parataxis
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 tired	advmod
18	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 became	xcomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fell	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fell	nsubj
21	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 became	advcl
22	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fell	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 class	case
24	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fell	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dropped	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 grades	nmod:poss
27	grades	grade	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dropped	nsubj
28	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fell	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	a boy in Scotland	games	boy's phone	night	in bed	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2	become	past	boy				tired property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	fall	past	boy		class		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location
4	drop	past	boy's grades					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness.lesson:17.

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, 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.

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