Sleep, exercise and growing up, sentence 3

Bright screens late in the evening make it harder to fall asleep, because the brain takes the light as a sign that it is still day.

Who acts: Bright screens, brain · What happens: make, fall, take, be · To what, where: Sleep, light, day

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep, exercise and growing up» 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), 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	7 make	nsubj
3	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 make	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 evening	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obl
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	expl
9	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 make	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fall	mark
11	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 harder	advcl
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fall	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 takes	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 takes	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brain	det
16	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 takes	nsubj
17	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 make	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 light	det
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 takes	obj
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 sign	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sign	det
22	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 takes	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 day	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 day	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 day	cop
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 day	advmod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sign	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Bright screens	Sleep	evening	hard, late property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	fall	to-infinitive	Bright screens not said here			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	present	the brain	the light		as a sign	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent light=Theme as sign=Attribute
4	is a	present	brain	day	still		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:038-sleep-exercise-growing.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): R7-rel-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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