Screens, eyes and sleep, sentence 4
Long screen time can mean less sleep, less activity and more tired eyes, though screens aren't always bad and balance matters.
Who acts: screen time, screens, balance · What happens: mean, not be, matter · To what, where: less sleep
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 (screen time, screens, balance), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 screen | amod |
| 2 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 sleep | amod |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 activity | punct |
| 9 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 activity | amod |
| 10 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleep | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eyes | cc |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 tired | advmod |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sleep | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bad | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 bad | mark |
| 17 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bad | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bad | cop |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 bad | advmod |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 bad | advmod |
| 21 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mean | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 matters | cc |
| 23 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 matters | nsubj |
| 24 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bad | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | screen time | less sleep and less activity and tired eyes | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | screens | always, bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | matter | present | balance | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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: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): 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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