Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 3

A vivid example: "He's a social drinker" can be a gentle way of saying he drinks a lot, perhaps too much.

Who acts: addiction, vivid example, gentle way · What happens: be, say, drink · To what, where: social drinker, gentle way, lot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (addiction, vivid example, gentle way), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 example	det
2	vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 example	amod
3	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 way	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 drinker	punct
6	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drinker	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 drinker	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 drinker	det
9	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 drinker	amod
10	drinker	drinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 way	nsubj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 drinker	punct
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 way	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 way	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 saying	mark
18	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 way	acl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drinks	nsubj
20	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 saying	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lot	det
22	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drinks	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 much	punct
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	20 drinks	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed hedge=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	addiction	a social drinker	tree rules
2	is a	can	a vivid example	a gentle way	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	a gentle way not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drink	present	addiction	a lot	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

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:3.

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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