--- title: Choosing well also means picking something instead of scrolling for… — Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to wa… · tree and pragmatics description: Choosing well also means picking something instead of scrolling for ever, putting the phone down to catch the clues, and not spoiling the ending for others. Who acts: Choosing. A sentence of the lesson «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Age ratings, scary films and choosing…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch/) / 3 # Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch, sentence 3 Choosing well also means picking something instead of scrolling for ever, putting the phone down to catch the clues, and not spoiling the ending for others. **Who acts:** Choosing · **What happens:** choose, mean, pick, scroll, put down, catch · **To what, where:** something, phone, clues, ending · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts 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 (Choosing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.lesson:3 # text = Choosing well also means picking something instead of scrolling for ever, putting the phone down to catch the clues, and not spoiling the ending for others. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.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 1 Choosing choose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 picking pick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 9 mark _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 scrolling scroll VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 spoiling spoil VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | gerund | | | | | | well *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Choosing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pick** *not said to happen* | gerund | Choosing *not said here* | something | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 4 | **scroll** | gerund | Choosing *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **put down** | gerund | Choosing *not said here* | the phone | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal | | 6 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Choosing *not said here* | the clues | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Theme | | 7 | **not** **spoil** | gerund | Choosing *not said here* | the ending | | | | for others | tree rules | 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:arts:026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.lesson:3`. **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. **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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