--- title: Quitting smoking is one of the best things a person can do for their… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics description: Quitting smoking is one of the best things a person can do for their health; many people need several tries. Who acts: Quitting, person, many people. 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 depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/) / 8 # Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 8 Quitting smoking is one of the best things a person can do for their health; many people need several tries. **Who acts:** Quitting, person, many people · **What happens:** quit, be, do, need · **To what, where:** smoking, one, best things, several tries 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 (Quitting, person, many people), 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:8 # text = Quitting smoking is one of the best things a person can do for their health; many people need several tries. # 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): no change 1 Quitting quit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 smoking smoking NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 20 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 tries try NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quit** | gerund | | smoking | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoking=Source | | 2 | **is a** | present | Quitting | one | | | | of the best things | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | can | a person | the best things *not said here* | | | | for things's health | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 4 | **need** | present | many people | several tries | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot try=Theme | 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:8`. **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): no change. **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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/7/) - next →: [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits th…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/)