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title: Screens before bed, with bright light and exciting content, can dela… — Screens, eyes and sleep · tree and pragmatics
description: Screens before bed, with bright light and exciting content, can delay sleep, so doctors suggest no screens for about an hour before bed and devices charged outside the bedroom. Who acts: Screens, doctors. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the medicine course of Mova's primary sch
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# Screens, eyes and sleep, sentence 10

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Screens before bed, with bright light and exciting content, can delay sleep, so doctors suggest no screens for about an hour before bed and devices charged outside the bedroom.

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**Who acts:** Screens, doctors · **What happens:** delay, suggest, charge · **To what, where:** sleep, screens, devices, bedroom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the medicine 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, doctors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:035-screens-eyes-and-sleep.lesson:10
# text = Screens before bed, with bright light and exciting content, can delay sleep, so doctors suggest no screens for about an hour before bed and devices charged outside the bedroom.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 035-screens-eyes-and-sleep.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	Screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	suggest	suggest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
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	13	obl	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
29	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl	_	_
30	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	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 | **delay** | can | Screens before bed and bright light and exciting content and devices | sleep |  |  | hour |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent sleep=Source |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | doctors | no screens |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent screen=Topic |
| 3 | **charge** | participle |  | devices *not said here* |  | the bedroom |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside bedroom=Trajectory |

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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:medicine:035-screens-eyes-and-sleep.lesson:10`.

**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.

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