--- title: Screens, diets, sofas and late nights — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Grown-ups make rules for children about screens, food and sleep, and then often break the same rules themselves, because habits a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Screens, diets, sofas and late nights # Screens, diets, sofas and late nights Lesson 29 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/0/) — Grown-ups make rules for children about screens, food and sleep, and then often break the same rules themselves, because habits are hard at any age. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/1/) — Phones and apps are built to grab attention; food, weight and exercise worry many adults; and tired grown-ups snore, nap and stay up too late. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/2/) — Picture a Tuesday in Toronto: Dad says "No phones at the table" and checks his own under it, Mum skips dessert because she's "being good", and after you go to bed they both watch TV until midnight and yawn all the next day. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/3/) — None of this makes them bad parents; it makes them people. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/4/) — Children can notice it kindly, laugh about it together and sometimes help everyone keep the rules. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/5/) — Families make phone rules so meals are for talking, and adults find them hard to keep because phones are built to grab attention. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/6/) — Doomscrolling means reading bad news on a phone, one story after another, often late at night; it usually makes people feel worse. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/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. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/8/) — Grown-ups limit children's screen time because too much can harm sleep, mood and play, though screens affect adults' sleep and mood too. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/9/) — A diet means eating less or differently to lose weight or feel healthier; some diets are sensible and some are fads that do not last. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/10/) — "I'm being good today" about food is just a phrase; eating a biscuit does not make anyone bad. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/11/) — Many people pay every month for a gym and then stop going, because starting a habit is easy and keeping it is hard. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/12/) — Running and other exercise release chemicals in the brain that lift mood, and free weekly parkruns are open to all ages. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/13/) — Swear words are strong words people say when hurt, angry or shocked; adults try not to swear in front of children and often feel embarrassed when they slip. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/14/) — Snoring is the noise of air rattling soft parts of the throat in sleep; couples sometimes sleep apart just to get a good night's rest. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/15/) — A big meal and a warm room make many adults sleepy, and "I was only resting my eyes" is a classic joke for a nap. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/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. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/17/) — Staying up too late makes adults tired the next day, and children's sleep matters even more for growing and learning. - ← previous: [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)