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title: Bright screens in bed tell the brain "it's still day", so it makes l… — Sleep and the body clock · tree and pragmatics
description: Bright screens in bed tell the brain "it's still day", so it makes less melatonin, the sleep chemical, and next day you're dead on your feet. Who acts: Bright screens, brain, you. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and the body clock» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Sleep and the body clock, sentence 5

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Bright screens in bed tell the brain "it's still day", so it makes less melatonin, the sleep chemical, and next day you're dead on your feet.

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**Who acts:** Bright screens, brain, you · **What happens:** tell, be, make · **To what, where:** brain, day, less melatonin, feet · **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 (Bright screens, brain, you), 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:5
# text = Bright screens in bed tell the brain "it's still day", so it makes less melatonin, the sleep chemical, and next day you're dead on your feet.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
18	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	melatonin	melatonin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det
22	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	chemical	chemical	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Bright screens in bed |  | the brain |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | brain | day |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | brain | less melatonin |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material melatonin=Product |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  | your feet | day | dead *property* | tree rules |

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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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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