Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 6

Doomscrolling means reading bad news on a phone, one story after another, often late at night; it usually makes people feel worse.

Who acts: Doomscrolling, people · What happens: mean, read, make, feel · To what, where: bad news, phone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Doomscrolling, people), 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	Doomscrolling	Doomscrolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	ccomp
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 news	amod
5	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reading	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 phone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 phone	det
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reading	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 story	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 story	nummod
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reading	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 story	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 often	punct
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 late	advmod
16	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 reading	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 late	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 makes	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 makes	nsubj
21	usually	usually	ADV	_	22 makes	advmod
22	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 feel	nsubj
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 makes	xcomp
25	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 feel	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Doomscrolling				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	read	gerund		bad news	a phone	one story after another obl; late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic
3	make	present	Doomscrolling			usually property	tree rules
4	feel	infinitive	people			bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:6.

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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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