--- title: Families make phone rules so meals are for talking, and adults find… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics description: Families make phone rules so meals are for talking, and adults find them hard to keep because phones are built to grab attention. Who acts: Families, meals, adults, rules. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 5 Families make phone rules so meals are for talking, and adults find them hard to keep because phones are built to grab attention. **Who acts:** Families, meals, adults, rules · **What happens:** make, be, find, keep, build, grab · **To what, where:** phone rules, rules, phones, attention 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 (Families, meals, adults, rules), 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:5 # text = Families make phone rules so meals are for talking, and adults find them hard to keep because phones are built to grab attention. # 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 ×2 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 so so SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case 9 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 24 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Families | phone rules | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product | | 2 | **is** | present | meals | | | | | talk *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | present | adults | rules *= rule* | | | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | rules *= rule* *not said here* | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **build** | present · passive | | phones | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 6 | **grab** | to-infinitive | | attention | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=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:5`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/4/) - next →: [Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/)