Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 6
Nicotine is very addictive, so smokers feel uncomfortable until they have the next one, and most started as teenagers.
Who acts: Nicotine, smokers · What happens: be, feel, have, start · To what, where: next one
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 (Nicotine, smokers), 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 | Nicotine | nicotine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 addictive | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 addictive | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 addictive | advmod |
| 4 | addictive | addictive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feel | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 feel | advmod |
| 7 | smokers | smoker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 addictive | parataxis |
| 9 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feel | xcomp |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feel | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 started | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 started | cc |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 started | advmod |
| 19 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 feel | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 teenagers | case |
| 21 | teenagers | teenager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 started | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 addictive | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nicotine | addictive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | smokers | uncomfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | present | smokers = smoker | the next one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 4 | start | past | smokers not said here | as teenagers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:6.
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, R7-rel-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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