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title: Bright screens and exciting games just before bed keep the brain ale… — Time, routines and sleep · tree and pragmatics
description: Bright screens and exciting games just before bed keep the brain alert, so it is wise to put them away about an hour before sleep. Who acts: Bright screens. A sentence of the lesson «Time, routines and sleep» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Time, routines and sleep, sentence 9

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Bright screens and exciting games just before bed keep the brain alert, so it is wise to put them away about an hour before sleep.

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**Who acts:** Bright screens · **What happens:** keep, be, put away · **To what, where:** brain, bed, screens, sleep

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Time, routines and sleep» 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 screens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:039-time-and-routines.lesson:9
# text = Bright screens and exciting games just before bed keep the brain alert, so it is wise to put them away about an hour before sleep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 039-time-and-routines.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
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	alert	alert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	expl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **keep** | present | Bright screens and exciting games | the brain |  | bed |  | alert *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent brain=Theme before bed=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put away** | to-infinitive |  | screens *= screen* |  | sleep | hour | away *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before sleep=Destination |

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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:039-time-and-routines.lesson:9`.

**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. **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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