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title: Children aged 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night to g… — Screens, eyes and sleep · tree and pragmatics
description: Children aged 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night to grow, learn and stay healthy. Who acts: Children. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Screens, eyes and sleep, sentence 12

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Children aged 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night to grow, learn and stay healthy.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** age, need, grow, learn, stay · **To what, where:** 6

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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 (Children), 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:12
# text = Children aged 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night to grow, learn and stay healthy.
# 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 ×2
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	aged	age	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
3	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **age** | participle | Children *not said here* | 6 |  |  |  | to 12 | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent 6=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | Children |  |  |  | hour; night |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **learn** | infinitive | Children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stay** | infinitive | Children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | healthy *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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:medicine:035-screens-eyes-and-sleep.lesson:12`.

**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 ×2. **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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