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title: Picture Sunday in Melbourne: Grandad Ron has a nicotine patch on his… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Sunday in Melbourne: Grandad Ron has a nicotine patch on his arm and is snappy because he's giving up smoking, while Uncle Steve shouts at the footy on telly because he's put twenty dollars on the final score. Who acts: Grandad Ron, Ron, Uncle Steve, Steve. A sentence of the lesson «Smoking,
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# Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 2

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Picture Sunday in Melbourne: Grandad Ron has a nicotine patch on his arm and is snappy because he's giving up smoking, while Uncle Steve shouts at the footy on telly because he's put twenty dollars on the final score.

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**Who acts:** Grandad Ron, Ron, Uncle Steve, Steve · **What happens:** have, be, give up, shout, put · **To what, where:** nicotine patch, arm, smoking, footy, twenty dollars, final score

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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 (Grandad Ron, Ron, Uncle Steve, Steve), 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:2
# text = Picture Sunday in Melbourne: Grandad Ron has a nicotine patch on his arm and is snappy because he's giving up smoking, while Uncle Steve shouts at the footy on telly because he's put twenty dollars on the final score.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Ron	Ron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	nicotine	nicotine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	snappy	snappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Steve	Steve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	footy	footy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	telly	telly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	's	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
38	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
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## 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 | **have** | present | Grandad Ron | a nicotine patch |  | Ron's arm |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Grandad Ron *not said here* |  |  |  |  | snappy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give up** | present · progressive | Ron | smoking |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoking=Source |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Uncle Steve |  |  | the footy on telly |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **put** | present · perfect | Steve | twenty dollars |  | the final score |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme on score=Destination |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×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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