--- title: A boy in Scotland played games on his phone in bed every night; he b… — Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Scotland played games on his phone in bed every night; he became so tired that he fell asleep in class and his grades dropped. Who acts: boy, grades. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, grades), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Scotland played games on his phone in bed every night; he became so tired that he fell asleep in class and his grades dropped. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness.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 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 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 grades grade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | past | a boy in Scotland | games | | boy's phone | night | in bed | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 2 | **become** | past | boy | | | | | tired *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **fall** | past | boy | | | class | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location | | 4 | **drop** | past | boy's grades | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness.lesson:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness/16/) - next →: [Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness/)