--- title: Grown-ups make rules for children about screens, food and sleep, and… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Grown ups, habits. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with it --- [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/0/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/) / 0 # Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 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. **Who acts:** Grown ups, habits · **What happens:** make, break, be · **To what, where:** rules, same rules, age 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 (Grown ups, habits), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Grown grown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 habits habit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Grown ups | rules | | | | for children about screens and food and sleep | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent rule=Product for child=Beneficiary | | 2 | **break** | present | Grown ups *not said here* | the same rules | | | then | ups *= up* *obl:unmarked*; often *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | habits | | | | at any age | hard *property* | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`. **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. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits th…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/18/) - next →: [Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/)