Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 18
"Substance misuse" is the British official phrase for harmful use of drugs or alcohol.
Who acts: Substance misuse · What happens: be, use · To what, where: British official phrase, drugs
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 misuse), 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 misuse | punct |
| 2 | Substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 misuse | compound |
| 3 | misuse | misuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 phrase | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 misuse | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 phrase | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 phrase | det |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 phrase | amod |
| 8 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 phrase | amod |
| 9 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 use | case |
| 11 | harmful | harmful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 use | amod |
| 12 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 phrase | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 drugs | case |
| 14 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 use | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 alcohol | cc |
| 16 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drugs | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 phrase | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Substance misuse | the British official phrase | for harmful use of drugs or alcohol | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | drugs or alcohol | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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:18.
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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