--- title: Officials use cool, careful words instead: addiction becomes "substa… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs · tree and pragmatics description: Officials use cool, careful words instead: addiction becomes "substance abuse" or "substance misuse", and illegal drugs become "recreational drugs". Who acts: Officials, addiction, illegal drugs. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/2/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/) / 2 # Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 2 Officials use cool, careful words instead: addiction becomes "substance abuse" or "substance misuse", and illegal drugs become "recreational drugs". **Who acts:** Officials, addiction, illegal drugs · **What happens:** use, become · **To what, where:** cool careful words, substance abuse, recreational drugs This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms 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 (Officials, addiction, illegal drugs), 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:2 # text = Officials use cool, careful words instead: addiction becomes "substance abuse" or "substance misuse", and illegal drugs become "recreational drugs". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3 1 Officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 instead instead ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 addiction addiction NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 abuse abuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 misuse misuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 illegal illegal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 drugs drug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 26 recreational recreational ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 drugs drug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 xcomp _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Officials | cool careful words | | | | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **become** | present | addiction | substance abuse or substance misuse | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **become** | present | illegal drugs | recreational drugs | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:2`. **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 ×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: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/)