Staying safe and kind online, sentence 5

Screens are fun, but children also need active play, time with people and 9 to 12 hours of sleep; a boy in Colorado who switched off his tablet an hour before bed found he fell asleep faster, because the bright screen and exciting games keep the brain awake.

Who acts: Screens, children, boy · What happens: be, need, switch off, find, fall, keep · To what, where: active play, tablet, bright screen, brain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying safe and kind online» 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 (Screens, children, 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	Screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fun	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fun	cop
3	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 need	cc
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 need	nsubj
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 need	advmod
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fun	conj
9	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 play	amod
10	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 need	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 play	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 people	case
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 time	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hours	cc
16	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 hours	nummod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 12	case
18	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 9	nmod
19	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 people	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 sleep	case
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hours	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 switched	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 boy	det
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 switched	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 Colorado	case
26	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 boy	nmod
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 switched	nsubj
28	switched	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fun	conj
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 switched	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tablet	nmod:poss
31	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 switched	obj
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hour	det
33	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 switched	obl:unmarked
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 bed	case
35	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hour	nmod
36	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fun	conj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fell	nsubj
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 found	ccomp
39	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fell	xcomp
40	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 fell	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 screen	punct
42	because	because	SCONJ	_	45 screen	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 screen	det
44	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 screen	amod
45	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fell	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 keep	cc
47	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 games	amod
48	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 screen	conj
49	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 screen	conj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 brain	det
51	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 keep	obj
52	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 keep	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fun	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Screens			fun property	tree rules
2	need	present	children	active play and time with people and 9 hours of sleep			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot play=Theme
3	switch off	past	a boy in Colorado	boy's tablet	hour		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Patient
4	find	past	Screens not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	fall	past	boy	the bright screen and exciting games		asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	keep	present	boy not said here	the brain		awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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:059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.lesson:5.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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