--- title: "Fags" is British slang for cigarettes, and a nicotine patch gives t… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics description: "Fags" is British slang for cigarettes, and a nicotine patch gives the body a little nicotine without the smoke to make quitting easier. Who acts: Fags, nicotine patch. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fags, nicotine patch), 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:7 # text = "Fags" is British slang for cigarettes, and a nicotine patch gives the body a little nicotine without the smoke to make quitting easier. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Fags fag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 cigarettes cigarette NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 nicotine nicotine NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 nicotine nicotine NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 20 without without ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 25 quitting quit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 obj _ _ 26 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | Fags | British slang | | | | for cigarettes | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | a nicotine patch | a little nicotine | the body | | | without the smoke | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient nicotine=Theme | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | a nicotine patch *not said here* | | | | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **quit** | gerund | | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](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:7`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits th…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/6/) - next →: [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits th…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/)