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title: Many grown-ups drink things that change how they feel: coffee and te… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Many grown ups, things, ups, coffee. A sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the a
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# Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** Many grown ups, things, ups, coffee, alcohol · **What happens:** grow, drink, change, feel, wake up, relax · **To what, where:** things, ups, larger amounts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life 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 (Many grown ups, things, ups, coffee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
30	relaxes	relax	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
36	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | present | Many grown ups | things |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 3 | **change** | present | things |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | present | ups *= up* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **wake up** | present | coffee and tea | ups *= up* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **relax** | present | alcohol and wine and beer and spirits | ups *= up* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 7 | **make** | present | alcohol and wine and beer and spirits *not said here* | ups *= up* |  | larger amounts |  | clumsy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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.

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**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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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