--- title: Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Small daily times add up to huge yearly ones: 2 hours of games a day is 14 hours a week and 730 hours a year, about 30 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Screen time, wasted time, and putting… # Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together Lesson 130 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 22 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/0/) — Small daily times add up to huge yearly ones: 2 hours of games a day is 14 hours a week and 730 hours a year, about 30 whole days and nights. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/1/) — Multiply your daily time by 365 to see what a habit really costs. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/2/) — "Wasting time" means spending it in a way you later wish you hadn't; resting, chilling and playing aren't waste if you chose them. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/3/) — The trouble is that apps are built to keep you going, with autoplay and endless feeds, so "5 minutes" of scrolling quietly becomes 45. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/5/) — Doing the hard job first, "eating the frog", leaves the fun part free of worry. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/6/) — Grown-ups say "time is money" because many are paid by the hour: at £12 an hour, 3 hours of work is £36. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/7/) — For children, practice "pays" later in skills. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/8/) — Putting it all together means doing time sums before you act. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/9/) — At 7:40, an 8-minute game and then a 10-minute walk gets you to the stop at 7:58, 3 minutes after the 7:55 bus has gone. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/10/) — As the old saying goes, "time and tide wait for no man": the sea's tide comes in about every 12 and a half hours whether you're ready or not. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/11/) — 2 hours a day is 2 × 7 = 14 hours a week and 2 × 365 = 730 hours a year, about 30 days. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/12/) — 6 hours out of 24 is a quarter of a day. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/13/) — Resting is not wasting time if you chose it; wasting time means spending it in a way you later wish you hadn't. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/14/) — Apps use autoplay and endless feeds to keep you scrolling, so timers and app limits help. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/15/) — "Eat the frog" means do the hardest job first. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/16/) — A week has 7 × 24 = 168 hours; 30 hours of school, 70 of sleep and 2 of football leave 66 hours. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/18/) — Leaving at 7:48 with a 10-minute walk, you reach the stop at 7:58, 3 minutes after a 7:55 bus. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/19/) — A plane leaving London at 10:00 and flying 3 hours lands at 13:00 London time, which is 15:00 in Kyiv, 2 hours ahead. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/20/) — From 9 December to 4 January is 26 days: 22 to the end of December, then 4 more. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/21/) — The tide comes in and goes out about twice a day, roughly every 12 and a half hours. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/22/) — "Time and tide wait for no man" means time keeps going whatever we do. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/23/) — Football every 3 days from Monday the 1st falls on the 1st, 4th, 7th and so on, on a different weekday each time: the 4th is a Thursday and the 7th a Sunday. - ← previous: [Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/) - next →: [Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)