Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 7
"Exhaustion", in a press statement about a famous person, often hides a crisis with drink or drugs.
Who acts: Exhaustion · What happens: hide · To what, where: crisis, press statement
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 (Exhaustion), 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 Exhaustion | punct |
| 2 | Exhaustion | exhaustion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hides | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Exhaustion | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 statement | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 statement | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 statement | det |
| 7 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 statement | compound |
| 8 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hides | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 person | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 11 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 person | amod |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 statement | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Exhaustion | punct |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 hides | advmod |
| 15 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 crisis | det |
| 17 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hides | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 drink | case |
| 19 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crisis | nmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 drugs | cc |
| 21 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drink | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 hides | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | Exhaustion | a crisis | a press statement about a famous person | with drink or drugs; often property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crisis=Patient in statement=Location |
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:7.
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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