--- title: Many people pay every month for a gym and then stop going, because s… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics description: Many people pay every month for a gym and then stop going, because starting a habit is easy and keeping it is hard. Who acts: Many people, starting. 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 pra --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 11 Many people pay every month for a gym and then stop going, because starting a habit is easy and keeping it is hard. **Who acts:** Many people, starting · **What happens:** pay, stop, go, start, be, keep · **To what, where:** habit 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 (Many people, starting), 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:11 # text = Many people pay every month for a gym and then stop going, because starting a habit is easy and keeping it is hard. # 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): no change 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 gym gym NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 15 starting start VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 expl _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | present | Many people | | | | month | for a gym | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for gym=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | present | Many people *not said here* | | | | then | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **go** | gerund | Many people *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **start** | gerund | | a habit | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | starting | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **keep** | gerund | starting *not said here* | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | Many people *not said here* | | | | | 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:11`. **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): no change. **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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/10/) - next →: [Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/)