Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 16
Alcoholism, or alcohol addiction, is an illness in which a person needs alcohol so badly they cannot stop even when it hurts them and their family; people can get better with help.
Who acts: Alcoholism, person, alcohol, drinking, people · What happens: be, need, not stop, hurt, get · To what, where: illness, 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 (Alcoholism, person, alcohol, 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 | Alcoholism | alcoholism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 illness | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 addiction | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 addiction | cc |
| 4 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 addiction | compound |
| 5 | addiction | addiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Alcoholism | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alcoholism | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 illness | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 illness | det |
| 9 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 needs | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needs | nsubj |
| 14 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 illness | acl:relcl |
| 15 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needs | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 badly | advmod |
| 17 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 stop | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stop | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 stop | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 stop | advmod |
| 21 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 needs | conj |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 hurts | advmod |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 hurts | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hurts | nsubj |
| 25 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 stop | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hurts | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 family | cc |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 family | nmod:poss |
| 29 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 them | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 get | punct |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 get | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 get | aux |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 illness | conj |
| 34 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 get | xcomp |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 help | case |
| 36 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 get | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 illness | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Alcoholism or alcohol addiction | a illness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a person | alcohol | a illness | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot alcohol=Theme | |||
| 3 | not stop | can | alcohol | badly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | hurt | present | drinking | alcohol | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | get | can | people | with help; good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:16.
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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