Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 20
"Had a few" means has drunk enough alcohol to be drunk.
What happens: have, mean, drink · To what, where: enough alcohol · 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: 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 | _ | 2 Had | punct |
| 2 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 few | dep |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 few | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | amod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 few | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 drunk | aux |
| 8 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | ccomp |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 alcohol | amod |
| 10 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drunk | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 drunk | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 drunk | aux:pass |
| 13 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 alcohol | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | drink | present · perfect | enough alcohol | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient | |||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive · passive | enough alcohol not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
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:20.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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