Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 7
On social media, "likes" can start to feel like a score of how popular you are, but they measure attention, not a person's worth; most apps are for 13 and over.
Who acts: likes, most apps · What happens: start, feel, be, measure · To what, where: social media, 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 (likes, most apps), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 media | case |
| 2 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 media | amod |
| 3 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 start | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 media | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 likes | punct |
| 6 | likes | like | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 start | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 likes | punct |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 start | aux |
| 9 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 feel | mark |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 start | xcomp |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 score | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 score | det |
| 14 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feel | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 popular | case |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 popular | advmod |
| 17 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 score | nmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 are | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 popular | cop |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 measure | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 measure | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 measure | nsubj |
| 23 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 start | conj |
| 24 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 measure | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 worth | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 worth | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 person | det |
| 28 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 worth | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 person | case |
| 30 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attention | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 13 | punct |
| 32 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 apps | amod |
| 33 | apps | app | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 13 | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 13 | cop |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 13 | case |
| 36 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 start | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 over | cc |
| 38 | over | over | ADV | _ | 36 13 | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | can | likes | social media | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | likes not said here | like a score | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like score=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | popular property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | measure | present | likes = like | attention and a person's worth | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme attention=Value | ||||
| 5 | is | present | most apps | for 13 | 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:7.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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.
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