Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 21
"One too many" means drunk, having had more alcohol than one should.
Who acts: many · What happens: mean, have · To what, where: more alcohol
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 (many), 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 | _ | 4 many | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 many | nsubj |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 many | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 having | punct |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | VerbForm=Ger | 10 had | aux |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 means | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 alcohol | amod |
| 12 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 should | mark |
| 14 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 should | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 having | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | mean | present | many | drunk property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund · perfect | many not said here | more alcohol | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=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:euphemisms:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:21.
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): 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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