--- title: A boy in Ottawa cannot sleep after playing on a tablet in bed; when… — Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ottawa cannot sleep after playing on a tablet in bed; when he puts it away an hour before bed and reads a book, he falls asleep faster. Who acts: boy. 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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), 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:4 # text = A boy in Ottawa cannot sleep after playing on a tablet in bed; when he puts it away an hour before bed and reads a book, he falls asleep faster. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ottawa Ottawa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 after after SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 before before ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 32 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sleep** | can | a boy in Ottawa | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **play** | gerund | a boy in Ottawa *not said here* | | | a tablet | | in bed | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **put away** | present | boy | bed | | | hour | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 4 | **read** | present | boy *not said here* | a book | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | | 5 | **fall** | present | boy | | | | | asleep, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP 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:4`. **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 ×2. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness/3/) - next →: [Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness/)