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title: Vapes are made colourful and sweet-tasting, and selling them to unde… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics
description: Vapes are made colourful and sweet-tasting, and selling them to under-18s is against the law. Who acts: selling. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 10

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Vapes are made colourful and sweet-tasting, and selling them to under-18s is against the law.

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**Who acts:** selling · **What happens:** make, sell, be · **To what, where:** Vapes, 18s

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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 (selling), 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:10
# text = Vapes are made colourful and sweet-tasting, and selling them to under-18s is against the law.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Vapes	vape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	colourful	colourful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	tasting	tasting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	18s	18s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | Vapes |  |  |  | colourful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **sell** | gerund |  | vapes *= vape* | 18s |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to 18s=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | selling |  |  |  |  | against the law | tree rules |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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