Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 13
Drunk means so much alcohol that balance, speech and judgement stop working properly; drunk people can fall, fight and act unpredictably.
Who acts: Drunk, balance, drunk people · What happens: mean, stop, work, fall, fight, act · To what, where: much alcohol
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 (Drunk, balance, drunk people), 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 | Drunk | Drunk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 alcohol | amod |
| 5 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 stop | mark |
| 7 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stop | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 speech | punct |
| 9 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 balance | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 judgement | cc |
| 11 | judgement | judgement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 balance | conj |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 alcohol | advcl |
| 13 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stop | xcomp |
| 14 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 13 working | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fall | punct |
| 16 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fall | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fall | aux |
| 19 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 means | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fight | punct |
| 21 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fall | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 act | cc |
| 23 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fall | conj |
| 24 | unpredictably | unpredictably | ADV | _ | 23 act | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Drunk | much alcohol | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | balance and speech and judgement | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | work | gerund | balance and speech and judgement not said here | properly property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | can | drunk people | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fight | infinitive | drunk people not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | act | infinitive | drunk people not said here | unpredictably property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:13.
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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