Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 2

For drinking, people joke or are polite: someone is "merry", "tipsy" or has had "one too many" instead of being plainly drunk.

Who acts: people, someone · What happens: joke, be, have · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms 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, someone), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 drinking	case
2	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joke	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 drinking	punct
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 joke	nsubj
5	joke	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 polite	cc
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 polite	cop
8	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joke	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 merry	punct
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 merry	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 merry	cop
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 merry	punct
13	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 polite	parataxis
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 merry	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tipsy	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tipsy	punct
17	tipsy	tipsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joke	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tipsy	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 had	aux
21	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 tipsy	conj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 many	punct
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 had	obj
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 drunk	punct
27	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	31 drunk	mark
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 instead	fixed
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 drunk	cop
30	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	31 drunk	advmod
31	drunk	drunk	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 joke	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present	people		for drinking	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	people not said here		polite property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	someone		merry property	tree rules
4	have	present · perfect	people not said here	one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	is	gerund			drunk, plainly property	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:euphemisms:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:2.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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