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title: Apps use autoplay and endless feeds to keep you scrolling, so timers… — Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all tog… · tree and pragmatics
description: Apps use autoplay and endless feeds to keep you scrolling, so timers and app limits help. Who acts: Apps, you, timers. A sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together, sentence 14

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Apps use autoplay and endless feeds to keep you scrolling, so timers and app limits help.

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**Who acts:** Apps, you, timers · **What happens:** use, keep, scroll, help · **To what, where:** autoplay, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» of the world 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 (Apps, you, timers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:14
# text = Apps use autoplay and endless feeds to keep you scrolling, so timers and app limits help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.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	Apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	autoplay	autoplay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	feeds	feed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	scrolling	scroll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	timers	timer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Apps | autoplay and endless feeds |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent autoplay=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Apps *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scroll** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | present | timers and app limits |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:world:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:14`.

**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/).

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