Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 2
Picture Sunday in Melbourne: Grandad Ron has a nicotine patch on his arm and is snappy because he's giving up smoking, while Uncle Steve shouts at the footy on telly because he's put twenty dollars on the final score.
Who acts: Grandad Ron, Ron, Uncle Steve, Steve · What happens: have, be, give up, shout, put · To what, where: nicotine patch, arm, smoking, footy, twenty dollars, final score
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 (Grandad Ron, Ron, Uncle Steve, Steve), 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 | Picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sunday | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Melbourne | case |
| 4 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sunday | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| 6 | Grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ron | compound |
| 7 | Ron | Ron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sunday | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 patch | det |
| 10 | nicotine | nicotine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 patch | compound |
| 11 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 arm | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arm | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 patch | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 snappy | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 snappy | cop |
| 17 | snappy | snappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 has | conj |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 giving | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 giving | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 giving | aux |
| 21 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 snappy | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 giving | compound:prt |
| 23 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 giving | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shouts | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 shouts | mark |
| 26 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Steve | compound |
| 27 | Steve | Steve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 shouts | nsubj |
| 28 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 has | advcl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 footy | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 footy | det |
| 31 | footy | footy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shouts | obl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 telly | case |
| 33 | telly | telly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 footy | nmod |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 put | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 put | nsubj |
| 36 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 put | aux |
| 37 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 shouts | advcl |
| 38 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 dollars | nummod |
| 39 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 put | obj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 score | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 score | det |
| 42 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 score | amod |
| 43 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 put | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Grandad Ron | a nicotine patch | Ron's arm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | Grandad Ron not said here | snappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give up | present · progressive | Ron | smoking | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoking=Source | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | present | Uncle Steve | the footy on telly | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | put | present · perfect | Steve | twenty dollars | the final score | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme on score=Destination |
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:2.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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