Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 11

Many people pay every month for a gym and then stop going, because starting a habit is easy and keeping it is hard.

Who acts: Many people, starting · What happens: pay, stop, go, start, be, keep · To what, where: habit

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 (Many people, starting), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pay	nsubj
3	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 month	det
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obl:unmarked
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 gym	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gym	det
8	gym	gym	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stop	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stop	advmod
11	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	conj
12	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pay	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 hard	mark
15	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 easy	csubj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 habit	det
17	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 starting	obj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 easy	cop
19	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hard	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 keeping	cc
21	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 easy	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hard	expl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hard	cop
24	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stop	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pay	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	Many people		month	for a gym	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for gym=Theme
2	stop	present	Many people not said here		then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	go	gerund	Many people not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	start	gerund		a habit			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Eventuality
5	is	present	starting			easy property	tree rules
6	keep	gerund	starting not said here				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	Many people not said here			hard property	tree rules

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:11.

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): no change. 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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