Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness, sentence 4

A boy in Ottawa cannot sleep after playing on a tablet in bed; when he puts it away an hour before bed and reads a book, he falls asleep faster.

Who acts: boy · What happens: not sleep, play, put away, read, fall · To what, where: tablet, bed, book

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), 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	7 sleep	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ottawa	case
4	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sleep	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sleep	advmod
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 playing	mark
9	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sleep	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 tablet	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tablet	det
12	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 playing	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 bed	case
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 playing	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 puts	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 puts	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 puts	nsubj
18	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 falls	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 puts	obj
20	away	away	ADV	_	18 puts	advmod
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hour	det
22	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 puts	obl:unmarked
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 bed	case
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hour	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 reads	cc
26	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 puts	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 book	det
28	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reads	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 falls	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 falls	nsubj
31	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sleep	conj
32	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 falls	xcomp
33	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 falls	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	can	a boy in Ottawa					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	gerund	a boy in Ottawa not said here		a tablet		in bed	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put away	present	boy	bed		hour	away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4	read	present	boy not said here	a book				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
5	fall	present	boy				asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP 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:4.

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 ×2. 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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