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title: Another family's rules are not a reason for yours to change, and sto… — Screen-time rules and arguments · tree and pragmatics
description: Another family's rules are not a reason for yours to change, and stories about «three hours» are often exaggerated. Who acts: rules, yours, family. A sentence of the lesson «Screen-time rules and arguments» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Screen-time rules and arguments, sentence 20

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Another family's rules are not a reason for yours to change, and stories about «three hours» are often exaggerated.

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**Who acts:** rules, yours, family · **What happens:** not be, change, exaggerate, rule · **To what, where:** reason, stories

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen-time rules and arguments» 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 (rules, yours, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:20
# text = Another family's rules are not a reason for yours to change, and stories about «three hours» are often exaggerated.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	«	«	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | another family's rules | a reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | to-infinitive | yours |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exaggerate** | present · passive |  | stories about « three hours |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rule** |  | another family |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:everyday:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:20`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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