Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 9

Vaping means using an e-cigarette that heats a liquid with nicotine and flavouring; it is less harmful than smoking but not harmless, and still addictive.

Who acts: Vaping, e-cigarette, Nicotine · What happens: mean, use, heat, be, not be · To what, where: e-cigarette, liquid

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 (Vaping, e-cigarette, Nicotine), 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	Vaping	vape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 e-cigarette	det
5	e-cigarette	e-cigarette	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 using	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 heats	nsubj
7	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 e-cigarette	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 liquid	det
9	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heats	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 nicotine	case
11	nicotine	nicotine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 liquid	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flavouring	cc
13	flavouring	flavouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nicotine	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 harmful	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 harmful	cop
17	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 harmful	advmod
18	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	parataxis
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 smoking	case
20	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 harmful	obl
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 harmless	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 harmless	advmod
23	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 harmful	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 addictive	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 addictive	cc
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 addictive	advmod
27	addictive	addictive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 harmful	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Vaping				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use not said to happen	gerund	Vaping not said here	a e-cigarette			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e-cigarette=Patient
3	heat	present	a e-cigarette	a liquid		with nicotine and flavouring	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent liquid=Patient with nicotine=Instrument
4	is	present	Nicotine			than smoking; harmful, less property	tree rules
5	not be		Nicotine not said here				tree rules
6	be		Nicotine not said here		still		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:9.

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 ×3. 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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