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title: Good habits make screens better, not worse: take turns, don't spoil… — Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Good habits make screens better, not worse: take turns, don't spoil endings, turn off autoplay, keep screens out of bedrooms at night, and remember that a day without screens makes room for other fun. Who acts: Good habits, day. A sentence of the lesson «Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-w
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# Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts, sentence 8

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Good habits make screens better, not worse: take turns, don't spoil endings, turn off autoplay, keep screens out of bedrooms at night, and remember that a day without screens makes room for other fun.

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**Who acts:** Good habits, day · **What happens:** make, take, not spoil, turn off, keep, remember · **To what, where:** screens, turns, endings, autoplay, bedrooms, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts» 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 (Good habits, day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:055-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts.lesson:8
# text = Good habits make screens better, not worse: take turns, don't spoil endings, turn off autoplay, keep screens out of bedrooms at night, and remember that a day without screens makes room for other fun.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 055-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts.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): no change
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	endings	ending	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	autoplay	autoplay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	bedrooms	bedroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	without	without	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
38	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Good habits | screens |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset screen=Product |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **spoil** | infinitive · do-support |  | endings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn off** | infinitive |  | autoplay |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent autoplay=Patient |
| 5 | **keep** | infinitive |  | screens |  | bedrooms | night |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent screen=Theme out bedroom=Location |
| 6 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | present | a day without screens | room |  |  |  | for other fun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent room=Product for fun=Asset |

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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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**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:055-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts.lesson:8`.

**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): no change. **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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