Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 16
Some TV programmes are made for adults because they are scary, violent or about grown-up problems, and evenings are when tired parents finally relax.
Who acts: programmes, evenings, tired parents · What happens: make, be, grow, relax · To what, where: TV programmes, tired parents
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 (programmes, evenings, tired parents), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 programmes | det |
| 2 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 programmes | compound |
| 3 | programmes | programme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 adults | case |
| 7 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 scary | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 scary | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 scary | cop |
| 11 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 violent | punct |
| 13 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 scary | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 problems | cc |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 problems | case |
| 16 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 problems | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 up | punct |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 grown | compound |
| 19 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 scary | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 relax | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 relax | cc |
| 22 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 parents | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 parents | cop |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 tired | advmod |
| 25 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 parents | amod |
| 26 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 relax | nsubj |
| 27 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 28 relax | advmod |
| 28 | relax | relax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | some TV programmes | for adults | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for adult=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | present | programmes = programme | scary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | programmes = programme not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | evenings | tired parents | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | relax | present | tired parents | finally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:16.
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): R3-conj-first ×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.
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