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title: Screens before bed keep your brain awake, so reading or calm sounds… — Screens, sleep, fairness and differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Screens before bed keep your brain awake, so reading or calm sounds help you fall asleep. Who acts: Screens, calm sounds, you. 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 clau
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# Screens, sleep, fairness and differences, sentence 8

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Screens before bed keep your brain awake, so reading or calm sounds help you fall asleep.

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**Who acts:** Screens, calm sounds, you · **What happens:** keep, read, help, fall · **To what, where:** brain, you

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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, calm sounds, you), 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:8
# text = Screens before bed keep your brain awake, so reading or calm sounds help you fall asleep.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
4	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **keep** | present | Screens before bed | your brain |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Theme |
| 2 | **read** | gerund | calm sounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | present | calm sounds | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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