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title: On social media, "likes" can start to feel like a score of how popul… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics
description: On social media, "likes" can start to feel like a score of how popular you are, but they measure attention, not a person's worth; most apps are for 13 and over. Who acts: likes, most apps. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life course of Mova's primary sch
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# Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 7

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On social media, "likes" can start to feel like a score of how popular you are, but they measure attention, not a person's worth; most apps are for 13 and over.

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**Who acts:** likes, most apps · **What happens:** start, feel, be, measure · **To what, where:** social media, attention

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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 (likes, most apps), 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:7
# text = On social media, "likes" can start to feel like a score of how popular you are, but they measure attention, not a person's worth; most apps are for 13 and over.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
6	likes	like	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:acl:relcl
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	measure	measure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
32	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	over	over	ADV	RB	_	36	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | can | likes |  |  | social media |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive | likes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a score | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like score=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | popular *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **measure** | present | likes *= like* | attention and a person's worth |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme attention=Value |
| 5 | **is** | present | most apps |  |  |  |  | for 13 | tree rules |

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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.

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**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 ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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