Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 8
"For medicinal purposes" is a joke meaning for drinking or getting high, not really for health.
Who acts: joke · What happens: be, mean, drink, get · To what, where: joke
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 (joke), 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 | _ | 8 joke | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 purposes | case |
| 3 | medicinal | medicinal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 purposes | amod |
| 4 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 joke | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 purposes | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 joke | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 joke | det |
| 8 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 joke | acl |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 drinking | mark |
| 11 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 meaning | advcl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 getting | cc |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 drinking | conj |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 getting | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 health | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 health | advmod |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 health | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 health | case |
| 19 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 joke | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 joke | 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 joke and health | for medicinal purposes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | a joke and health not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | gerund | a joke and health not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | gerund | a joke and health not said here | high property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: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): R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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