Sleep and the body clock, sentence 5

Bright screens in bed tell the brain "it's still day", so it makes less melatonin, the sleep chemical, and next day you're dead on your feet.

Who acts: Bright screens, brain, you · What happens: tell, be, make · To what, where: brain, day, less melatonin, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and the body clock» of the world 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 (Bright screens, brain, you), 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	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 screens	amod
2	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 bed	case
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 screens	nmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brain	det
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	iobj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 day	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 day	cop
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 day	advmod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	ccomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 makes	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 makes	nsubj
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
18	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 melatonin	amod
19	melatonin	melatonin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 makes	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chemical	det
22	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chemical	compound
23	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 melatonin	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dead	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dead	cc
26	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 day	amod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dead	obl:unmarked
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 dead	nsubj
29	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	cop
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 makes	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 feet	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 feet	nmod:poss
33	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dead	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Bright screens in bed		the brain				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	brain	day			still		tree rules
3	make	present	brain	less melatonin					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material melatonin=Product
4	is	present	you			your feet	day	dead property	tree rules

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:world:127-sleep-and-the-body-clock.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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