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title: Too much screen time, especially late at night, makes it harder to s… — Screens, sleep, fairness and differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Too much screen time, especially late at night, makes it harder to sleep and concentrate. Who acts: much screen time. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Screens, sleep, fairness and differences, sentence 19

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Too much screen time, especially late at night, makes it harder to sleep and concentrate.

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**Who acts:** much screen time · **What happens:** make, sleep, concentrate

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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 (much screen time), 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:19
# text = Too much screen time, especially late at night, makes it harder to sleep and concentrate.
# 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): no change
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	concentrate	concentrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **make** | present | much screen time at night |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | much screen time at night *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **concentrate** | infinitive | much screen time at night *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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:19`.

**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): no change. **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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