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title: Breakfast shows and chat shows feel like friends chatting on a comfy… — Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Breakfast shows and chat shows feel like friends chatting on a comfy sofa, but they are a job: the presenters are paid, the chat is planned, a voice in their earpiece tells them what comes next, and the guests usually come to sell a film, a book or a song. Who acts: Breakfast shows, friends, shows, 
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# Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 0

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Breakfast shows and chat shows feel like friends chatting on a comfy sofa, but they are a job: the presenters are paid, the chat is planned, a voice in their earpiece tells them what comes next, and the guests usually come to sell a film, a book or a song.

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**Who acts:** Breakfast shows, friends, shows, voice, guests · **What happens:** feel, chat, be, pay, plan, tell · **To what, where:** comfy sofa, job, presenters, chat, film · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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 (Breakfast shows, friends, shows, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:0
# text = Breakfast shows and chat shows feel like friends chatting on a comfy sofa, but they are a job: the presenters are paid, the chat is planned, a voice in their earpiece tells them what comes next, and the guests usually come to sell a film, a book or a song.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	chatting	chat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	comfy	comfy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	presenters	presenter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	earpiece	earpiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	39	nsubj	_	_
39	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	_
40	next	next	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
45	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
54	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=53:conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **feel** | present | Breakfast shows and chat shows |  |  |  |  | like friends | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like friend=Theme |
| 2 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | friends *not said here* |  |  | a comfy sofa |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | shows *= show* | a job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay** | present · passive |  | the presenters |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 5 | **plan** | present · passive |  | the chat |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a voice in presenters's earpiece |  | presenters *= presenter* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **come** | present | the guests |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **sell** | to-infinitive | the guests *not said here* | a film and a book or a song |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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