Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 17

"Substance abuse" is the official phrase for addiction to drugs or alcohol; addiction means a person cannot stop taking something even though it harms them.

Who acts: Substance abuse, addiction, person · What happens: be, mean, not stop, take, harm · To what, where: official phrase, something, abuse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms 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 (Substance abuse, addiction, person), 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	_	3 abuse	punct
2	Substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 abuse	compound
3	abuse	abuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 phrase	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 abuse	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 phrase	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 phrase	det
7	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 phrase	amod
8	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 addiction	case
10	addiction	addiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 phrase	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 drugs	case
12	drugs	drug	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 addiction	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 alcohol	cc
14	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drugs	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
16	addiction	addiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 phrase	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 person	det
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stop	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 stop	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 stop	advmod
22	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 means	ccomp
23	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 stop	xcomp
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 taking	obj
25	even	even	ADV	_	28 harms	advmod
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 harms	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 harms	nsubj
28	harms	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 taking	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 harms	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 phrase	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Substance abuse	the official phrase	for addiction to drugs or alcohol	tree rules
2	mean	present	addiction			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not stop	can	a person			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	take	gerund	a person not said here	something		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
5	harm	present	person	abuse		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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:euphemisms:030-drinking-and-drugs.lesson:17.

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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