--- title: Phones can steal attention without people noticing; saying it out lo… — Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, m… · tree and pragmatics description: Phones can steal attention without people noticing; saying it out loud, for example asking for phone-free dinners, often helps. Who acts: Phones, people, example, saying. A sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection course of Mova's pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/13-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness/17/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Hard things at home: broken promises,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/13-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness/) / 17 # Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 17 Phones can steal attention without people noticing; saying it out loud, for example asking for phone-free dinners, often helps. **Who acts:** Phones, people, example, saying · **What happens:** steal, notice, say, ask, help · **To what, where:** attention · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection 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 (Phones, people, example, saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:17 # text = Phones can steal attention without people noticing; saying it out loud, for example asking for phone-free dinners, often helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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 ×1 1 Phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 steal steal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 noticing notice VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 csubj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 out out ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 12 loud loud ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 16 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 dinners dinner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 23 often often ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | can | Phones | attention | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location attention=Theme | | 2 | **notice** | gerund | people | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | attention | | | | loud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | example *not said here* | | | | | for free dinners | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | present | saying | | | | | for example; often *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:17`. **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 ×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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