Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 6
"Self-medicating" means using alcohol or drugs to cope with problems instead of getting proper help.
What happens: medicate, mean, use, cope, get · To what, where: alcohol, proper help · 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: 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 | _ | 4 medicating | punct |
| 2 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 medicating | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Self | punct |
| 4 | medicating | medicate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 medicating | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 using | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 drugs | cc |
| 10 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 alcohol | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 cope | mark |
| 12 | cope | cope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 using | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 problems | case |
| 14 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cope | obl |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 getting | mark |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cope | advcl |
| 18 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 help | amod |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 getting | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | medicate in a quote | gerund | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | use not said to happen | gerund | alcohol or drugs | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cope | to-infinitive | with problems | vn cope-83-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with problem=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get | gerund | proper help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |
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:005-drink-mind-and-body.lesson:6.
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.
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