Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 2

Officials use cool, careful words instead: addiction becomes "substance abuse" or "substance misuse", and illegal drugs become "recreational drugs".

Who acts: Officials, addiction, illegal drugs · What happens: use, become · To what, where: cool careful words, substance abuse, recreational 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 (Officials, addiction, illegal drugs), 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	Officials	official	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cool	punct
5	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 use	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 becomes	punct
9	addiction	addiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 becomes	nsubj
10	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 use	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 abuse	punct
12	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 abuse	compound
13	abuse	abuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 becomes	xcomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 abuse	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 misuse	cc
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 misuse	punct
17	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 misuse	compound
18	misuse	misuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 abuse	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 misuse	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 become	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 become	cc
22	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 drugs	amod
23	drugs	drug	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 become	nsubj
24	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 becomes	conj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 drugs	punct
26	recreational	recreational	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 drugs	amod
27	drugs	drug	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 become	xcomp
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 drugs	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Officials	cool careful words	instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	become	present	addiction	substance abuse or substance misuse		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	become	present	illegal drugs	recreational drugs		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:2.

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): R6-punct-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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