--- title: "I'm being good today" about food is just a phrase; eating a biscuit… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics description: "I'm being good today" about food is just a phrase; eating a biscuit does not make anyone bad. Who acts: Dad, good, eating. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 10 "I'm being good today" about food is just a phrase; eating a biscuit does not make anyone bad. **Who acts:** Dad, good, eating · **What happens:** be, eat, not make · **To what, where:** phrase, biscuit, anyone 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 (Dad, good, eating), 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:10 # text = "I'm being good today" about food is just a phrase; eating a biscuit does not make anyone bad. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:cop 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 cop _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ _ 6 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 just just ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 biscuit biscuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 21 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 obj _ _ 22 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod 23 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Dad | | | | today | about food; good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | good | a phrase | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | | a biscuit | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biscuit=Patient | | 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | eating | anyone | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset anyone=Product | 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:10`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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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