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title: A boy in Ohio played on screens until late every night; his sleep, m… — Screens, sleep, fairness and differences · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ohio played on screens until late every night; his sleep, marks and mood got worse until his family set screen-free time before bed. Who acts: boy, sleep, family. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Screens, sleep, fairness and differences, sentence 16

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A boy in Ohio played on screens until late every night; his sleep, marks and mood got worse until his family set screen-free time before bed.

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**Who acts:** boy, sleep, family · **What happens:** play, get, set, sleep · **To what, where:** screens

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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 (boy, sleep, family), 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:16
# text = A boy in Ohio played on screens until late every night; his sleep, marks and mood got worse until his family set screen-free time before bed.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
20	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **play** | past | a boy in Ohio |  |  | screens | night |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past | boy's sleep and marks and mood |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **set** | past | boy's family |  |  |  | time |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sleep** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences.lesson:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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