Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 8
Quitting smoking is one of the best things a person can do for their health; many people need several tries.
Who acts: Quitting, person, many people · What happens: quit, be, do, need · To what, where: smoking, one, best things, several tries
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 (Quitting, person, many people), 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 | Quitting | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 one | csubj |
| 2 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Quitting | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 things | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 health | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 health | nmod:poss |
| 15 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 need | punct |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 people | amod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 need | nsubj |
| 19 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | parataxis |
| 20 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tries | amod |
| 21 | tries | try | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 need | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quit | gerund | smoking | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoking=Source | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Quitting | one | of the best things | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | can | a person | the best things not said here | for things's health | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | need | present | many people | several tries | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot try=Theme |
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:8.
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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