--- title: Most adults drink alcohol in small amounts with food or with friends… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Most adults, food, drinking. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most adults, food, drinking), 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:1 # text = 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. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 legal legal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 usually usually ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 drinking drink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 csubj _ _ 22 too too ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 much much ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 25 headaches headache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 accidents accident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | present | Most adults | alcohol | | small amounts with food or friends | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | food or friends | | | | | legal *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | food or friends *not said here* | | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **drink** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cause** | present | drinking | headaches and accidents and some people and a real illness | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition headache=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson:1`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/)