--- title: A diet means eating less or differently to lose weight or feel healt… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics description: A diet means eating less or differently to lose weight or feel healthier; some diets are sensible and some are fads that do not last. Who acts: diet, diets, some, fads. 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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 (diet, diets, some, fads), 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:9 # text = A diet means eating less or differently to lose weight or feel healthier; some diets are sensible and some are fads that do not last. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 diet diet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 ccomp _ _ 5 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 differently differently ADV RB _ 5 conj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 10 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 12 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 13 healthier healthy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 xcomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 diets diet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:det 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 fads fad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **mean** | present | a diet | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Patient | | 3 | **lose** | to-infinitive | | weight | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | | | | | | healthy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | some diets | | | | | sensible *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | some | fads | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **last** | present · do-support | fads | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-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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