Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 4
The easiest way never to have a hard habit is never to start one.
Who acts: easiest way · What happens: not have, not be · To what, where: hard habit
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 (easiest way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 start | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 have | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 way | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 habit | det |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 habit | amod |
| 9 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 start | cop |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 start | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 start | mark |
| 13 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 start | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | to-infinitive | the easiest way not said here | a hard habit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | the easiest way | start property | tree rules |
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:4.
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.
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