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title: The light and excitement of screens make it harder to fall asleep. — Sharing, sleep and safe food · tree and pragmatics
description: The light and excitement of screens make it harder to fall asleep. Who acts: light, excitement. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sharing, sleep and safe food, sentence 8

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The light and excitement of screens make it harder to fall asleep.

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**Who acts:** light, excitement · **What happens:** make, fall, light · **To what, where:** excitement, screens

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing, sleep and safe food» 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 (light, excitement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:8
# text = The light and excitement of screens make it harder to fall asleep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
9	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | the light of screens and excitement | excitement |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **fall** | to-infinitive | excitement *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **light** |  |  | screens |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.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, 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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