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title: Some habits hook people: they give a quick good feeling, then the bo… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some habits hook people: they give a quick good feeling, then the body or mind wants that feeling again and again, until stopping becomes very hard. Who acts: habits, body. A sentence of the lesson «Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop» of the adult life course of Mova's primary
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# Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 0

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Some habits hook people: they give a quick good feeling, then the body or mind wants that feeling again and again, until stopping becomes very hard.

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**Who acts:** habits, body · **What happens:** hook, give, want, stop, become · **To what, where:** people, quick good feeling, feeling

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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 (habits, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:028-smoking-vaping-and-betting.lesson:0
# text = Some habits hook people: they give a quick good feeling, then the body or mind wants that feeling again and again, until stopping becomes very hard.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 028-smoking-vaping-and-betting.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hook	hook	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
18	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	nsubj	_	_
27	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hook** | present | some habits | people |  |  |  |  | vn rotate-51.9.1-1 «NP V NP.extent»: agent=Theme people=Extent |
| 2 | **give** | present | habits *= habit* | a quick good feeling |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | present | the body or mind | that feeling |  |  | again |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feeling=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **become** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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