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title: Put tablets and phones away about an hour before sleep and keep them… — Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, gettin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Put tablets and phones away about an hour before sleep and keep them out of the bedroom, because their light and excitement make it harder to fall asleep. Who acts: you, light, excitement, bedroom. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe fo
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# Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food, sentence 13

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Put tablets and phones away about an hour before sleep and keep them out of the bedroom, because their light and excitement make it harder to fall asleep.

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**Who acts:** you, light, excitement, bedroom · **What happens:** put, keep, make, fall, light · **To what, where:** tablets, sleep, bedroom, excitement

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, 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 (you, light, excitement, bedroom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:13
# text = Put tablets and phones away about an hour before sleep and keep them out of the bedroom, because their light and excitement make it harder to fall asleep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 317-teeth-baths-showers-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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | tablets and phones |  | sleep | hour | away *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme before sleep=Destination |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | tablets *= tablet* |  | the bedroom |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out bedroom=Location |
| 3 | **make** | present | bedroom's light and excitement | excitement |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **fall** | to-infinitive | excitement *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **light** |  | bedroom |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:13`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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