Screens, eyes and sleep, sentence 3
A phone in bed steals that sleep: the exciting game, the last video, the bright light, and before you know it it's midnight and tomorrow's maths feels like fog.
Who acts: phone, you, Sleep, maths · What happens: steal, know, be, feel · To what, where: sleep, midnight
This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the medicine 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 (phone, you, Sleep, maths), 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 phone | det |
| 2 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 steals | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 bed | case |
| 4 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 phone | nmod |
| 5 | steals | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | DET | PronType=Dem | 7 sleep | det |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 steals | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 game | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 game | det |
| 10 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 game | amod |
| 11 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleep | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 video | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 video | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 video | amod |
| 15 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 game | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 light | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 light | det |
| 18 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 light | amod |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 game | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 midnight | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 midnight | cc |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 know | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 know | nsubj |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 midnight | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 know | obj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 midnight | nsubj |
| 27 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 midnight | cop |
| 28 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 steals | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 feels | cc |
| 30 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 maths | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 tomorrow | case |
| 32 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 feels | nsubj |
| 33 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 midnight | conj |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 fog | case |
| 35 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 feels | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 steals | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present | a phone in bed | that sleep | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sleep=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | Sleep | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Sleep | midnight | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | tomorrow's maths | like fog | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like fog=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:medicine:035-screens-eyes-and-sleep.lesson:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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