Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 0

Some habits hook people: they give a quick good feeling, then the body or mind wants that feeling again and again, until stopping becomes very hard.

Who acts: habits, body · What happens: hook, give, want, stop, become · To what, where: people, quick good feeling, feeling

This is a sentence of the lesson «Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop» of the adult life 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 (habits, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 habits	det
2	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hook	nsubj
3	hook	hook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hook	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hook	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 feeling	det
9	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feeling	amod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feeling	amod
11	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 body	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 body	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 body	det
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wants	nsubj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 mind	cc
17	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 body	conj
18	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 give	conj
19	that	that	DET	PronType=Dem	20 feeling	det
20	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wants	obj
21	again	again	ADV	_	18 wants	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 again	cc
23	again	again	ADV	_	21 again	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stopping	punct
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 becomes	mark
26	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 becomes	nsubj
27	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 give	advcl
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 hard	advmod
29	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 becomes	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hook	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hook	present	some habits	people			vn rotate-51.9.1-1 «NP V NP.extent»: agent=Theme people=Extent
2	give	present	habits = habit	a quick good feeling			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme
3	want	present	the body or mind	that feeling	again		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feeling=Theme
4	stop	gerund					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	become	present				hard property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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, 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:adult-life:028-smoking-vaping-and-betting.lesson:0.

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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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