Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 10

"I'll just have the one" means a person plans to drink only one alcoholic drink, often because they are driving; it is a well-known joke because one so often becomes three.

Who acts: people, person, drinks, one · What happens: have, mean, plan, drink, drive, know · To what, where: one, one alcoholic drink, known joke · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, person, drinks, one), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 means	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plans	nsubj
12	plans	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drink	mark
14	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 plans	xcomp
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 drink	nummod
17	alcoholic	alcoholic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 drink	amod
18	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drink	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 often	punct
20	often	often	ADV	_	24 driving	advmod
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 driving	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 driving	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 driving	aux
24	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 drink	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 joke	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 joke	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 joke	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 joke	det
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 known	advmod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 well	punct
31	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 joke	amod
32	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	parataxis
33	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	37 becomes	mark
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 becomes	nsubj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 often	advmod
36	often	often	ADV	_	37 becomes	advmod
37	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 joke	advcl
38	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 becomes	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	future	people	the one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	plan	present	a person			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive	a person not said here	one alcoholic drink		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
5	drive	present · progressive	drinks = drink		often property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	know	participle			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	present	person	a known joke		tree rules
8	become	present	one		often property	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, 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:10.

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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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