Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 5

Families make phone rules so meals are for talking, and adults find them hard to keep because phones are built to grab attention.

Who acts: Families, meals, adults, rules · What happens: make, be, find, keep, build, grab · To what, where: phone rules, rules, phones, attention

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 (Families, meals, adults, rules), 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	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rules	compound
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 talking	mark
6	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 talking	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 talking	cop
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 talking	mark
9	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 make	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 find	cc
12	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 find	nsubj
13	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	obj
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 find	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 keep	mark
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hard	xcomp
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 built	mark
19	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 built	nsubj:pass
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 built	aux:pass
21	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 keep	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 grab	mark
23	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 built	advcl
24	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grab	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Families	phone rules		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product
2	is	present	meals		talk property	tree rules
3	find	present	adults	rules = rule	hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	keep	to-infinitive	rules = rule not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	build	present · passive		phones		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
6	grab	to-infinitive		attention		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

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