Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 15

Dry January is when people choose to drink no alcohol for the whole month, to feel healthier, save money and check that drinking is a choice, not a need.

Who acts: Dry January, drinking · What happens: be, drink, feel, save, check · To what, where: alcohol, money, choice

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 (Dry January, 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	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 January	amod
2	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 choose	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 choose	cop
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 choose	advmod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 choose	nsubj
6	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 drink	mark
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 choose	xcomp
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 alcohol	det
10	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drink	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 month	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 month	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 month	amod
14	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drink	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feel	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 feel	mark
17	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 drink	advcl
18	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 feel	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 save	punct
20	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 feel	conj
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 save	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 check	cc
23	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 save	conj
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 drinking	det
25	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 choice	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 choice	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 choice	det
28	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 check	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 need	punct
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 need	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 need	det
32	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 choice	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 choose	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dry January			choose property	tree rules
2	drink	to-infinitive	Dry January not said here	no alcohol	month		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient
3	feel	to-infinitive	Dry January not said here			healthy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	save	infinitive	Dry January not said here	money			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
5	check	infinitive	Dry January not said here				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	that drinking	a choice and a need			tree rules

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:15.

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 ×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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