Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 11
"A skinful" (UK slang) means enough alcohol to make someone very drunk.
Who acts: skinful · What happens: mean, make · To what, where: enough alcohol, someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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 (skinful), 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 skinful | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 skinful | det |
| 3 | skinful | skinful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 skinful | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 slang | punct |
| 6 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slang | compound |
| 7 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 skinful | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 slang | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 alcohol | amod |
| 11 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 means | advcl |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 drunk | advmod |
| 16 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | 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 | present | a skinful | enough alcohol | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a skinful not said here | someone | drunk property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product |
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:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:11.
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. 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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