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title: Some parents are glued to their phones for work or habit, and it can… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: Some parents are glued to their phones for work or habit, and it can make children feel unimportant. Who acts: habit, children. A sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 30

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Some parents are glued to their phones for work or habit, and it can make children feel unimportant.

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**Who acts:** habit, children · **What happens:** glue, make, feel · **To what, where:** parents, children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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 (habit, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:30
# text = Some parents are glued to their phones for work or habit, and it can make children feel unimportant.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	glued	glue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **glue** | present · passive |  | some parents |  |  |  | to parents's phones; for work or habit | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to phone=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **make** | can | habit | children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unimportant *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:30`.

**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.

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

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