Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 11
"Hair of the dog" means an alcoholic drink taken to cure a hangover, which does not really work.
Who acts: Hair, hangover · What happens: mean, take, cure, not work · To what, where: alcoholic drink, hangover
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 (Hair, hangover), 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 Hair | punct |
| 2 | Hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hair | nmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hair | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 drink | det |
| 9 | alcoholic | alcoholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drink | amod |
| 10 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 drink | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cure | mark |
| 13 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taken | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hangover | det |
| 15 | hangover | hangover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cure | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 work | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 work | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 work | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 work | advmod |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 work | advmod |
| 21 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hangover | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | Hair of the dog | a alcoholic drink | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | a alcoholic drink not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cure | to-infinitive | a hangover | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer hangover=Source | |||||
| 4 | not work | present · do-support | a hangover | vn employment-95.3 «NP 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:030-drinking-and-drugs.lesson:11.
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, R8-pos-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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