Gaming nights and the morning after, sentence 13

Stopping screens at a fixed time, with a quiet wind-down before bed, helps children fall asleep faster.

Who acts: Stopping, children · What happens: stop, fix, help, fall · To what, where: screens, children

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaming nights and the morning after» 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 (Stopping, children), 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	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 helps	csubj
2	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stopping	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stopping	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 down	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	13 down	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 down	det
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 down	amod
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 down	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 wind	punct
13	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stopping	obl
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 bed	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 down	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 helps	punct
17	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 helps	obj
19	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 helps	xcomp
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fall	advmod
21	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 fall	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 helps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	gerund		screens	time	with a quiet wind down before bed	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector screen=Eventuality with down=Subeventuality
2	fix	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	help	present	Stopping	children			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	fall	infinitive	children not said here			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:medicine:057-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after.lesson:13.

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): 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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