--- title: Doomscrolling means reading bad news on a phone, one story after ano… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics description: Doomscrolling means reading bad news on a phone, one story after another, often late at night; it usually makes people feel worse. Who acts: Doomscrolling, people. 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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 (Doomscrolling, people), 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:6 # text = Doomscrolling means reading bad news on a phone, one story after another, often late at night; it usually makes people feel worse. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Doomscrolling Doomscrolling NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 ccomp _ _ 4 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 16 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 usually usually ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ _ 26 . . 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 | **mean** | present | Doomscrolling | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **read** | gerund | | bad news | | a phone | | one story after another *obl*; late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic | | 3 | **make** | present | Doomscrolling | | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | people | | | | | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:6`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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