Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 7

"Fags" is British slang for cigarettes, and a nicotine patch gives the body a little nicotine without the smoke to make quitting easier.

Who acts: Fags, nicotine patch · What happens: be, give, make, quit · To what, where: British slang, little nicotine, body

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 (Fags, nicotine patch), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fags	punct
2	Fags	fag	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slang	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fags	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slang	cop
5	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 slang	amod
6	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 cigarettes	case
8	cigarettes	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slang	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gives	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gives	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 patch	det
12	nicotine	nicotine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 patch	compound
13	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	nsubj
14	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slang	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 body	det
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 nicotine	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nicotine	amod
19	nicotine	nicotine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	obj
20	without	without	ADP	_	22 smoke	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 smoke	det
22	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nicotine	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 make	mark
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gives	advcl
25	quitting	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 make	obj
26	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 make	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fags	British slang		for cigarettes	tree rules
2	give	present	a nicotine patch	a little nicotine	the body	without the smoke	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient nicotine=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	a nicotine patch not said here			easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	quit	gerund					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:7.

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): 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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