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title: Screens are fun, but too much time on them can make you grumpy and s… — Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair… · tree and pragmatics
description: Screens are fun, but too much time on them can make you grumpy and spoil your sleep. Who acts: Screens, much time, your. A sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play, sentence 5

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Screens are fun, but too much time on them can make you grumpy and spoil your sleep.

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**Who acts:** Screens, much time, your · **What happens:** be, make, spoil, sleep · **To what, where:** you, sleep

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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, much time, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.lesson:5
# text = Screens are fun, but too much time on them can make you grumpy and spoil your sleep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.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
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | Screens |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | can | much time on Screens | you |  |  |  | grumpy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 3 | **spoil** | infinitive | much time on Screens *not said here* | your sleep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sleep** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.lesson:5`.

**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. **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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