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title: Screens can be fine or too much for anyone of any age; what matters… — The brother who never does anything wrong: doubl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Screens can be fine or too much for anyone of any age; what matters is how long and what you watch. Who acts: Screens, you. A sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 19

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Screens can be fine or too much for anyone of any age; what matters is how long and what you watch.

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**Who acts:** Screens, you · **What happens:** be, matter, watch

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» 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 (Screens, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:19
# text = Screens can be fine or too much for anyone of any age; what matters is how long and what you watch.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.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	Screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
15	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	csubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | Screens |  |  |  |  | for anyone; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Screens *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **watch** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:19`.

**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.

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

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