Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 1

Phones and apps are built to grab attention; food, weight and exercise worry many adults; and tired grown-ups snore, nap and stay up too late.

Who acts: food, tired grown ups · What happens: build, grab, worry, snore, nap, stay up · To what, where: Phones, attention, many adults

This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life 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 (food, tired grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 apps	cc
3	apps	app	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Phones	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux:pass
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grab	mark
7	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 built	advcl
8	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grab	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 food	punct
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worry	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weight	punct
12	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 food	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 exercise	cc
14	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 food	conj
15	worry	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 built	parataxis
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 adults	amod
17	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 worry	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 snore	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 snore	cc
20	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ups	amod
21	grown	grow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ups	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 ups	punct
23	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 snore	nsubj
24	snore	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 built	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nap	punct
26	nap	nap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 snore	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stay	cc
28	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 snore	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 stay	compound:prt
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 late	advmod
31	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 stay	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		Phones and apps		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	grab	to-infinitive		attention		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme
3	worry	present	food and weight and exercise	many adults		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus adult=Experiencer
4	snore	present	tired grown ups			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	nap	present	tired grown ups not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stay up	infinitive	tired grown ups not said here		late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Licence: CC 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:adult-life:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson:1.

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 ×3. 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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