--- title: Some TV programmes are made for adults because they are scary, viole… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: programmes, evenings, tired parents. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life course of Mova's pri --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 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. **Who acts:** programmes, evenings, tired parents · **What happens:** make, be, grow, relax · **To what, where:** TV programmes, tired parents 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 (programmes, evenings, tired parents), 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:16 # text = 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. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 programmes programme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 violent violent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound _ _ 19 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 evenings evening NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 25 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 finally finally ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 relax relax VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **make** | present · passive | | some TV programmes | | | | for adults | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for adult=Beneficiary | | 2 | **is** | present | programmes *= programme* | | | | | scary *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | programmes *= programme* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | evenings | tired parents | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **relax** | present | tired parents | | | | | finally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:16`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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. 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