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title: Screens are fun, but too much screen time can make you grumpy and sp… — Screens, sleep, fairness and differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Screens are fun, but too much screen time can make you grumpy and spoil your sleep, so families agree on limits and children take breaks outside. Who acts: Screens, much screen time, families, children. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» of the everyday course of Mov
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# Screens, sleep, fairness and differences, sentence 0

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Screens are fun, but too much screen time can make you grumpy and spoil your sleep, so families agree on limits and children take breaks outside.

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**Who acts:** Screens, much screen time, families, children, your · **What happens:** be, make, spoil, agree, take, sleep · **To what, where:** you, sleep, breaks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» of the everyday 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 (Screens, much screen time, families, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences.lesson:0
# text = Screens are fun, but too much screen time can make you grumpy and spoil your sleep, so families agree on limits and children take breaks outside.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 103-screens-fairness-and-differences.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
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod
8	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Screens |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | can | much screen time | you |  |  |  | grumpy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 3 | **spoil** | infinitive | much screen time *not said here* | your sleep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | families |  |  |  |  | on limits | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on limit=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | present | children | breaks |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme |
| 6 | **sleep** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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. **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/).

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