--- title: Children need plenty of sleep (about 9 to 12 hours a night at this a… — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics description: Children need plenty of sleep (about 9 to 12 hours a night at this age) to learn and grow. Who acts: Children. A sentence of the lesson «Staying up, screens and coming home late» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Staying up, screens and coming home late](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/) / 14 # Staying up, screens and coming home late, sentence 14 Children need plenty of sleep (about 9 to 12 hours a night at this age) to learn and grow. **Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** need, learn, grow · **To what, where:** plenty This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying up, screens and coming home late» 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 (Children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.lesson:14 # text = Children need plenty of sleep (about 9 to 12 hours a night at this age) to learn and grow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 appos _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case 10 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Children | plenty of sleep | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plenty=Theme | | 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | infinitive | Children *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late.lesson:14`. **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, R6-punct-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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