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title: "I'll just have the one" means a person plans to drink only one alco… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics
description: "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. Who acts: people, person, drinks, one. A sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life course of Mov
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# Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 10

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"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.

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**Who acts:** people, person, drinks, one · **What happens:** have, mean, plan, drink, drive, know · **To what, where:** one, one alcoholic drink, known joke · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, person, drinks, one), 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:10
# text = "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.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:csubj
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	plans	plan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	alcoholic	alcoholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
33	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	37	mark	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nsubj	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod
36	often	often	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
38	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **have** *in a quote* | future | people | the one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **plan** | present | a person |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **drink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a person *not said here* | one alcoholic drink |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient |
| 5 | **drive** | present · progressive | drinks *= drink* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is a** | present | person | a known joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **become** | present | one |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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