--- title: Good families check their rules now and then and change the ones tha… — Screen-time rules and arguments · tree and pragmatics description: Good families check their rules now and then and change the ones that no longer work, because children grow and need different rules. Who acts: Good families, ones, children, rules. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good families, ones, children, rules), 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:26 # text = Good families check their rules now and then and change the ones that no longer work, because children grow and need different rules. # 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): no change 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 check check VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 14 no no ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 16 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | present | Good families | rules's rules | | | now | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | | 2 | **change** | infinitive | Good families *not said here* | the ones | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 3 | **work** | present | the ones | | | | | long *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | present | children | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **need** | present | children *not said here* | different rules | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rule=Theme | | 6 | **rule** | | rules *= rule* | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:26`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Screen-time rules and arguments, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments/25/) - next →: [GTA 6: what rated 18 means, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments/)