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title: The bright light and excitement of a tablet or phone tell the brain… — Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe… · tree and pragmatics
description: The bright light and excitement of a tablet or phone tell the brain to stay awake, so screens go away about an hour before bed, and a dark, quiet, cool room helps deep sleep. Who acts: bright light, brain, screens, dark quiet cool room. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sle
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# Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food, sentence 6

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The bright light and excitement of a tablet or phone tell the brain to stay awake, so screens go away about an hour before bed, and a dark, quiet, cool room helps deep sleep.

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**Who acts:** bright light, brain, screens, dark quiet cool room · **What happens:** tell, stay, go away, help, light · **To what, where:** brain, bed, deep sleep, tablet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, 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 (bright light, brain, screens, dark quiet cool room), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:6
# text = The bright light and excitement of a tablet or phone tell the brain to stay awake, so screens go away about an hour before bed, and a dark, quiet, cool room helps deep sleep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 289-teeth-bath-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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
16	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
30	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
37	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	.	.	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the bright light of a tablet or phone and excitement | the brain |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the brain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go away** | present | screens |  |  | bed | hour | away *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before bed=Location |
| 4 | **help** | present | a dark quiet cool room | deep sleep |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **light** |  |  | a tablet or phone |  |  |  |  | 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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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.

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