Sleep and school mornings, sentence 25
Stopping screens about an hour before bed helps the brain calm down.
Who acts: Stopping, brain · What happens: stop, help, calm down · To what, where: screens
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and school mornings» 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 (Stopping, brain), 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 | Stopping | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 helps | csubj |
| 2 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stopping | obj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 hour | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 screens | nmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stopping | obl |
| 8 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brain | det |
| 10 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calm | nsubj |
| 11 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 helps | xcomp |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 calm | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | gerund | screens | about a hour; before bed | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality screen=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | help | present | Stopping | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | calm down | infinitive | the brain | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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:everyday:418-sleep-and-school-mornings.lesson:25.
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.
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