--- title: Habits change slowly: fewer friends who lead you into trouble and mo… — Breaking things and hiding the pieces · tree and pragmatics description: Habits change slowly: fewer friends who lead you into trouble and more things to do than to be idle. Who acts: Habits, fewer friends. A sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/22/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Breaking things and hiding the pieces](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/) / 22 # Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 22 Habits change slowly: fewer friends who lead you into trouble and more things to do than to be idle. **Who acts:** Habits, fewer friends · **What happens:** change, lead, do, be · **To what, where:** you, trouble This is a sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» of the everyday 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 (Habits, fewer friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.lesson:22 # text = Habits change slowly: fewer friends who lead you into trouble and more things to do than to be idle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Habits habit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 5 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lead lead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 idle idle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Habits | | | | | slowly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lead** | present | fewer friends and more things | you | | trouble | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into trouble=Destination | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | fewer friends and more things *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | fewer friends and more things *not said here* | | | | | idle *property* | 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:everyday:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.lesson:22`. **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): R5-strong ×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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