Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 24
"Has a drinking problem" means is an alcoholic, a person who cannot stop drinking alcohol.
Who acts: person · What happens: have, mean, be, not stop, drink · To what, where: drinking problem, alcoholic, alcohol · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» 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 (person), 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 Has | punct |
| 2 | Has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 problem | det |
| 4 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 problem | compound |
| 5 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Has | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 problem | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 alcoholic | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 alcoholic | det |
| 10 | alcoholic | alcoholic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 person | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 alcoholic | appos |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 stop | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 stop | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 stop | advmod |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 person | acl:relcl |
| 18 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 stop | xcomp |
| 19 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drinking | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | a drinking problem | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a alcoholic | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not stop | can | a person | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | drink | gerund | a person not said here | alcohol | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient |
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:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:24.
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 ×2. 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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