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title: Using screens just before bed can make it harder to fall asleep. — Staying safe and kind online · tree and pragmatics
description: Using screens just before bed can make it harder to fall asleep. Who acts: Using. A sentence of the lesson «Staying safe and kind online» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Staying safe and kind online, sentence 21

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Using screens just before bed can make it harder to fall asleep.

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**Who acts:** Using · **What happens:** use, make, fall · **To what, where:** screens

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying safe and kind online» 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 (Using), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.lesson:21
# text = Using screens just before bed can make it harder to fall asleep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.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	Using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **use** | gerund |  | screens |  |  | before bed |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | can | Using |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **fall** | to-infinitive | Using *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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**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:059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.lesson:21`.

**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.

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

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