Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 6
"Worse for wear" in Britain means drunk or badly hungover; a hangover is the headache and sick feeling the morning after drinking too much.
Who acts: Worse, hangover · What happens: mean, be, feel, drink · To what, where: drunk, headache
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 (Worse, 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 Worse | punct |
| 2 | Worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 means | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 wear | case |
| 4 | wear | wear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Worse | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Worse | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Britain | case |
| 7 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obl |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 hungover | cc |
| 11 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 hungover | advmod |
| 12 | hungover | hungover | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drunk | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 headache | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hangover | det |
| 15 | hangover | hangover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 headache | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 headache | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 headache | det |
| 18 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sick | cc |
| 20 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 headache | amod |
| 21 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 sick | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 morning | det |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feeling | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 25 drinking | mark |
| 25 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 feeling | advcl |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 drinking | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | Worse | drunk | in Britain | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot drunk=Theme in britain=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a hangover | the headache | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | gerund | a hangover not said here | morning | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | drink | gerund | a hangover not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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:6.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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