Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 8
"Refreshments" on an invitation can politely mean alcoholic drinks.
Who acts: Refreshments · What happens: mean · To what, where: alcoholic drinks
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 (Refreshments), 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 Refreshments | punct |
| 2 | Refreshments | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Refreshments | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 invitation | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 invitation | det |
| 6 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Refreshments | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 mean | aux |
| 8 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 9 mean | advmod |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | alcoholic | alcoholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drinks | amod |
| 11 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mean | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | 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 | mean | can | Refreshments on a invitation | alcoholic drinks | politely property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=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:8.
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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