--- title: Grown-ups limit children's screen time because too much can harm sle… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups limit children's screen time because too much can harm sleep, mood and play, though screens affect adults' sleep and mood too. Who acts: Grown ups, much, screens, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Screens, diets, sofas and late nights](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/) / 8 # Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 8 Grown-ups limit children's screen time because too much can harm sleep, mood and play, though screens affect adults' sleep and mood too. **Who acts:** Grown ups, much, screens, adults · **What happens:** limit, harm, affect, sleep · **To what, where:** sleep This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life 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 (Grown ups, much, screens, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson:8 # text = Grown-ups limit children's screen time because too much can harm sleep, mood and play, though screens affect adults' sleep and mood too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grown grow ADJ JJ _ 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 limit limit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 too too ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 14 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 16 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 though though SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 affect affect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 23 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 ' 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **limit** | present | Grown ups | | | | time | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer | | 2 | **harm** | can | much | sleep and mood and play | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sleep=Experiencer | | 3 | **affect** | present | screens | adults's sleep and mood | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sleep=Experiencer | | 4 | **sleep** | | adults | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson:8`. **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, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/7/) - next →: [Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/)