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title: Tipsy means a little alcohol has made someone chattier and sillier t… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics
description: Tipsy means a little alcohol has made someone chattier and sillier than usual, though they are still in control. Who acts: Tipsy, little alcohol, alcohol. A sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 12

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Tipsy means a little alcohol has made someone chattier and sillier than usual, though they are still in control.

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**Who acts:** Tipsy, little alcohol, alcohol · **What happens:** mean, make, be · **To what, where:** control · **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 (Tipsy, little alcohol, alcohol), 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:12
# text = Tipsy means a little alcohol has made someone chattier and sillier than usual, though they are still in control.
# 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	Tipsy	tipsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
9	chattier	chatty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sillier	silly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
13	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Tipsy |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect | a little alcohol |  |  |  |  | chatty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | present | alcohol |  |  | control | still |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:12`.

**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/).

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