Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 24
"Three sheets to the wind" is an old phrase for very drunk.
Who acts: Three sheets · What happens: be · To what, where: old phrase
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 (Three sheets), 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 | _ | 11 phrase | punct |
| 2 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sheets | nummod |
| 3 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 phrase | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wind | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sheets | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sheets | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 phrase | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 phrase | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 phrase | amod |
| 11 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 drunk | case |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 drunk | advmod |
| 14 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 phrase | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 phrase | 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 | is a | present | Three sheets to the wind | a old phrase | for drunk | 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:24.
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. 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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