--- title: Vaping means using an e-cigarette that heats a liquid with nicotine… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics description: Vaping means using an e-cigarette that heats a liquid with nicotine and flavouring; it is less harmful than smoking but not harmless, and still addictive. Who acts: Vaping, e-cigarette, Nicotine. 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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 (Vaping, e-cigarette, Nicotine), 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:9 # text = Vaping means using an e-cigarette that heats a liquid with nicotine and flavouring; it is less harmful than smoking but not harmless, and still addictive. # 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 ×3 1 Vaping vape NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 e-cigarette e-cigarette NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 nicotine nicotine NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 flavouring flavouring NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 18 harmful harmful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 20 smoking smoking NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 addictive addictive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Vaping | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **use** *not said to happen* | gerund | Vaping *not said here* | a e-cigarette | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e-cigarette=Patient | | 3 | **heat** | present | a e-cigarette | a liquid | | | | with nicotine and flavouring | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent liquid=Patient with nicotine=Instrument | | 4 | **is** | present | Nicotine | | | | | than smoking; harmful, less *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **be** | | Nicotine *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | Nicotine *not said here* | | | | still | | tree rules | 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:9`. **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 ×3. **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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/8/) - next →: [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits th…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/)