Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 17
"Merry" and "squiffy" mean a little drunk; "blotto" and "three sheets to the wind" mean very drunk; "had a few" means has drunk enough to be drunk.
Who acts: Merry, blotto · What happens: mean, have, drink, be · To what, where: drunk, few · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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 (Merry, blotto), 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 Merry | punct |
| 2 | Merry | Merry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Merry | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 squiffy | cc |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 squiffy | punct |
| 6 | squiffy | squiffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Merry | conj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 squiffy | punct |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drunk | obl |
| 11 | drunk | drunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mean | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 blotto | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 blotto | punct |
| 14 | blotto | blotto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mean | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 blotto | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mean | cc |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sheets | punct |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 sheets | nummod |
| 19 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blotto | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 wind | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wind | det |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sheets | nmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sheets | punct |
| 24 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | conj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 drunk | advmod |
| 26 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mean | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sheets | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 means | nsubj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 few | det |
| 31 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 had | obj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 few | punct |
| 33 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | conj |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 drunk | aux |
| 35 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 means | ccomp |
| 36 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 35 drunk | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 drunk | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 drunk | cop |
| 39 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 drunk | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Merry | drunk | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drunk=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | blotto and three sheets to the wind | drunk | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drunk=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | a few | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | drink | present · perfect | enough property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | drink property | 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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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