Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 1

Most adults drink alcohol in small amounts with food or with friends, which is legal and usually harmless; drinking too much causes headaches, accidents and, for some people, a real illness.

Who acts: Most adults, food, drinking · What happens: drink, be, cause · To what, where: alcohol, small amounts, headaches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» 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 (Most adults, food, drinking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 adults	amod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drink	nsubj
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 amounts	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 amounts	amod
7	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drink	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 food	case
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 amounts	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 friends	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 friends	case
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 food	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 legal	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 legal	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 legal	cop
16	legal	legal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 harmless	cc
18	usually	usually	ADV	_	19 harmless	advmod
19	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 legal	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 headaches	punct
21	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 causes	csubj
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	21 drinking	advmod
24	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	parataxis
25	headaches	headache	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 causes	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 accidents	punct
27	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 headaches	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 people	cc
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 and	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 people	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 people	det
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 headaches	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 illness	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 illness	det
35	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 illness	amod
36	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 headaches	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drink	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Most adults	alcohol	small amounts with food or friends		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient
2	is	present	food or friends			legal property	tree rules
3	be		food or friends not said here			usually property	tree rules
4	drink	gerund					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cause	present	drinking	headaches and accidents and some people and a real illness			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition headache=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, 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:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson:1.

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.

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