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title: To choose a bedtime, count back from your wake-up time: up at 7 am a… — Sleep and the body clock · tree and pragmatics
description: To choose a bedtime, count back from your wake-up time: up at 7 am and needing 10 hours means asleep by 9 pm. Who acts: you, needing. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and the body clock» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleep and the body clock, sentence 4

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To choose a bedtime, count back from your wake-up time: up at 7 am and needing 10 hours means asleep by 9 pm.

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**Who acts:** you, needing · **What happens:** choose up, count back, need, mean · **To what, where:** bedtime, 7 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and the body clock» of the world 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 (you, needing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:127-sleep-and-the-body-clock.lesson:4
# text = To choose a bedtime, count back from your wake-up time: up at 7 am and needing 10 hours means asleep by 9 pm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 127-sleep-and-the-body-clock.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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	choose	choose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
18	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	needing	need	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	csubj	_	_
21	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
27	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose up** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a bedtime |  | 7  am |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bedtime=Theme at 7=Asset |
| 2 | **count back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **need** | gerund |  |  |  |  | hour |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **mean** | present | needing |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:world:127-sleep-and-the-body-clock.lesson:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×5, 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/).

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