--- title: "Substance abuse" is the official phrase for addiction to drugs or a… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs · tree and pragmatics description: "Substance abuse" is the official phrase for addiction to drugs or alcohol; addiction means a person cannot stop taking something even though it harms them. Who acts: Substance abuse, addiction, person. 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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 (Substance abuse, addiction, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:030-drinking-and-drugs.lesson:17 # text = "Substance abuse" is the official phrase for addiction to drugs or alcohol; addiction means a person cannot stop taking something even though it harms them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 030-drinking-and-drugs.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 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 abuse abuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 addiction addiction NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 drugs drug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 addiction addiction NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 23 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obj _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 though though SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 harms harm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | Substance abuse | the official phrase | | | | for addiction to drugs or alcohol | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | addiction | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **stop** | can | a person | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **take** | gerund | a person *not said here* | something | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 5 | **harm** | present | person | abuse | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | 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:euphemisms:030-drinking-and-drugs.lesson:17`. **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: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/16/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/)