Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 22
"Over the limit" means too drunk to drive by law.
What happens: mean, drive · To what, where: limit
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 | _ | 8 drunk | punct |
| 2 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 4 limit | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 limit | det |
| 4 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 limit | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 drunk | advmod |
| 8 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 drive | mark |
| 10 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drunk | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drive | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the limit | drunk property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drive | to-infinitive | by law | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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:22.
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 ×2. 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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