Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 3
Alcohol is against the law to buy before 18 because growing bodies and brains handle it badly.
Who acts: Alcohol, growing bodies · What happens: be, buy, grow, handle · To what, where: law
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 (Alcohol, growing bodies), 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 | Alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 law | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 law | cop |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 law | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 law | det |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 buy | mark |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 law | acl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 18 | case |
| 9 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 buy | obl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 handle | mark |
| 11 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 bodies | amod |
| 12 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 handle | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brains | cc |
| 14 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bodies | conj |
| 15 | handle | handle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 buy | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 handle | obj |
| 17 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 handle | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 law | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Alcohol | against the law | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | before 18 | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | handle | present | growing bodies and brains | law | badly property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:3.
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): no change. 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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