--- title: Phones and apps are built to grab attention; food, weight and exerci… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: food, tired grown ups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food, tired grown ups), 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:1 # text = 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. # 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 ×3 1 Phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 apps app NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 8 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 exercise exercise NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 worry worry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 23 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 snore snore VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 nap nap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present · passive | | Phones and apps | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **grab** | to-infinitive | | attention | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | | 3 | **worry** | present | food and weight and exercise | many adults | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus adult=Experiencer | | 4 | **snore** | present | tired grown ups | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **nap** | present | tired grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stay up** | infinitive | tired grown ups *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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](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:1`. **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 ×3. **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: [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/) - next →: [Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/)