Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 0
Drinking too much alcohol and taking drugs can harm people, and talking about it plainly can feel embarrassing.
Who acts: Drinking, talking · What happens: drink, take, harm, talk, feel · To what, where: much alcohol, drugs, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Drinking, talking), 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 | Drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 harm | csubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 alcohol | amod |
| 4 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drinking | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 taking | cc |
| 6 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Drinking | conj |
| 7 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 taking | obj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 harm | aux |
| 9 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 harm | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feel | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 talking | cc |
| 13 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 feel | csubj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 talking | obl |
| 16 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 13 talking | advmod |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 feel | aux |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 harm | conj |
| 19 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 harm | 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 | drink | gerund | much alcohol | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient | |||||
| 2 | take | gerund | drugs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drug=Theme | |||||
| 3 | harm | can | Drinking | people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | about alcohol; plainly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | |||||
| 5 | feel | can | talking | embarrassing property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:030-drinking-and-drugs.lesson:0.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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