Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 9
A "nightcap" is an alcoholic drink before bed.
Who acts: nightcap · What happens: be · To what, where: alcoholic drink
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 (nightcap), 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 nightcap | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nightcap | punct |
| 3 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drink | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nightcap | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 drink | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 drink | det |
| 7 | alcoholic | alcoholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drink | amod |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drink | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drink | 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 | is a | present | a nightcap | a alcoholic drink | before bed | tree rules |
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:9.
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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