Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 20
"Party favours" is US slang for illegal drugs at a party, though it also means small party gifts.
Who acts: Party favours, party · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: US slang, small party gifts
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 (Party favours, party), 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 | _ | 3 favours | punct |
| 2 | Party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 favours | compound |
| 3 | favours | favour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 slang | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 favours | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slang | cop |
| 6 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slang | compound |
| 7 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 drugs | case |
| 9 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drugs | amod |
| 10 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 slang | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 party | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 party | det |
| 13 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drugs | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 slang | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 means | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 means | nsubj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 means | advmod |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slang | advcl |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gifts | amod |
| 20 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gifts | compound |
| 21 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 means | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slang | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Party favours | US slang | for illegal drugs at a party | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | party | small party gifts | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Topic |
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:20.
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): no change. 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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