Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 17

"I need a drink" usually just means "I've had a hard day", but using alcohol every time things go wrong can turn into a hard habit.

Who acts: people, things, using · What happens: need, mean, have, use, go, turn · To what, where: drink, alcohol, time, hard habit · 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, things, using), 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	_	3 need	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	parataxis
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drink	det
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 means	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 means	advmod
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
12	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 had	aux
13	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 means	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 turn	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 turn	cc
20	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 turn	csubj
21	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 using	obj
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 using	obl
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 go	nsubj
25	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 time	acl:relcl
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 go	xcomp
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 turn	aux
28	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 means	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	32 habit	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 habit	det
31	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 habit	amod
32	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turn	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present	people	a drink				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme
2	mean	present					usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present · perfect	people			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	use	gerund		alcohol		time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient
5	go	present	things	every time not said here			wrong property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
6	turn	can	using		a hard habit			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into habit=Trajectory

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:17.

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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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