Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 9

A pub is a place where adults meet, talk, sometimes eat and usually drink beer; time flies when people chat, so "an hour" often becomes several.

Who acts: pub, adults, time, people, hour · What happens: be, meet, talk, eat, drink, fly · To what, where: place, beer

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 (pub, adults, time, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pub	det
2	pub	pub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 meet	advmod
7	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 meet	nsubj
8	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talk	punct
10	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meet	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 eat	advmod
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meet	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drink	cc
15	usually	usually	ADV	_	16 drink	advmod
16	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meet	conj
17	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drink	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 flies	punct
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flies	nsubj
20	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	parataxis
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 chat	advmod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 chat	nsubj
23	chat	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 flies	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 becomes	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	31 becomes	advmod
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 hour	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hour	det
28	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 becomes	nsubj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 hour	punct
30	often	often	ADV	_	31 becomes	advmod
31	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 flies	parataxis
32	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 becomes	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a pub	a place		tree rules
2	meet	present	adults			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	talk	present	adults not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	present	adults not said here		sometimes property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	present	adults not said here	beer	usually property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Patient
6	fly	present	time			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	chat speech: other	present	people			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	become	present	a hour		often, several property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:9.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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