--- title: Screens are fun, but children also need active play, time with peopl… — Staying safe and kind online · tree and pragmatics description: Screens are fun, but children also need active play, time with people and 9 to 12 hours of sleep; a boy in Colorado who switched off his tablet an hour before bed found he fell asleep faster, because the bright screen and exciting games keep the brain awake. Who acts: Screens, children, boy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Screens, children, boy), 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:5 # text = Screens are fun, but children also need active play, time with people and 9 to 12 hours of sleep; a boy in Colorado who switched off his tablet an hour before bed found he fell asleep faster, because the bright screen and exciting games keep the brain awake. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 also also ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 active active ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nmod _ _ 19 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Colorado Colorado PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 switched switch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 before before ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 39 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 38 advmod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 because because SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:nsubj 49 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 52 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 xcomp _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Screens | | | | | fun *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | children | active play and time with people and 9 hours of sleep | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot play=Theme | | 3 | **switch off** | past | a boy in Colorado | boy's tablet | | | hour | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Patient | | 4 | **find** | past | Screens *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | past | boy | the bright screen and exciting games | | | | asleep, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **keep** | present | boy *not said here* | the brain | | | | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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:059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.lesson:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Staying safe and kind online, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/59-staying-safe-and-kind-online/4/) - next →: [Staying safe and kind online, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/59-staying-safe-and-kind-online/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/59-staying-safe-and-kind-online/)