--- title: Coffee, tea, wine and the pub — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Many grown-ups drink things that change how they feel: coffee and tea wake them up, and alcohol, in wine, beer and spirits, relaxes them --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Coffee, tea, wine and the pub # Coffee, tea, wine and the pub Lesson 27 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/0/) — Many grown-ups drink things that change how they feel: coffee and tea wake them up, and alcohol, in wine, beer and spirits, relaxes them and in larger amounts makes them clumsy and silly. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/1/) — Most adults drink alcohol in small amounts with food or with friends, which is legal and usually harmless; drinking too much causes headaches, accidents and, for some people, a real illness. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/2/) — Picture a wedding in Galway: Auntie Siobhan giggles that she is "a bit tipsy", Uncle Pat says he'll "just have the one" and has three, and the next morning Dad lies in a dark room asking everyone to whisper. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/3/) — Alcohol is against the law to buy before 18 because growing bodies and brains handle it badly. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/4/) — When a grown-up drinks too much, it is never the child's fault and never the child's job to fix. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/5/) — Coffee contains caffeine, which makes the brain feel more awake; people who drink it every morning feel slow and grumpy without it. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/6/) — Too much caffeine can make people jittery, give them a fast heartbeat and stop them sleeping well, and then they drink more coffee because they are tired. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/7/) — In Britain and Ireland "let's put the kettle on" means "let's stop, sit down and deal with this together"; the pause matters more than the tea. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/8/) — Wine is a drink with alcohol in it; one glass with a meal makes many adults feel a little relaxed and is a normal, legal grown-up treat. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/9/) — A pub is a place where adults meet, talk, sometimes eat and usually drink beer; time flies when people chat, so "an hour" often becomes several. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/10/) — "I'll just have the one" means a person plans to drink only one alcoholic drink, often because they are driving; it is a well-known joke because one so often becomes three. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/11/) — Drinking and driving is against the law and dangerous. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/12/) — Tipsy means a little alcohol has made someone chattier and sillier than usual, though they are still in control. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/13/) — Drunk means so much alcohol that balance, speech and judgement stop working properly; drunk people can fall, fight and act unpredictably. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/14/) — A hangover is how the body feels the day after drinking too much alcohol: headache, tiredness, thirst and feeling sick. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/15/) — Dry January is when people choose to drink no alcohol for the whole month, to feel healthier, save money and check that drinking is a choice, not a need. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/16/) — Alcoholism, or alcohol addiction, is an illness in which a person needs alcohol so badly they cannot stop even when it hurts them and their family; people can get better with help. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/17/) — "I need a drink" usually just means "I've had a hard day", but using alcohol every time things go wrong can turn into a hard habit. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/18/) — If someone in your family drinks too much, it is never your fault; tell a trusted adult or call a children's helpline such as Childline (0800 1111 in the UK). - ← previous: [What people leave behind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/) - next →: [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)