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title: Screens at bedtime can make it harder to fall asleep. — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics
description: Screens at bedtime can make it harder to fall asleep. Who acts: Screens. 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.
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# Staying up, screens and coming home late, sentence 15

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Screens at bedtime can make it harder to fall asleep.

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**Who acts:** Screens · **What happens:** make, fall

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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 (Screens), 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:15
# text = Screens at bedtime can make it harder to fall asleep.
# 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): no change
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
7	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make** | can | Screens at bedtime |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **fall** | to-infinitive | Screens at bedtime *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): no change. **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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