--- title: Dry January is when people choose to drink no alcohol for the whole… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Dry January, 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 (Dry January, 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:15 # text = 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. # 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 ×3 1 Dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 10 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 18 healthier healthy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 21 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 24 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 ccomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:appos 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Dry January | | | | | choose *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | Dry January *not said here* | no alcohol | | | month | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient | | 3 | **feel** | to-infinitive | Dry January *not said here* | | | | | healthy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **save** | infinitive | Dry January *not said here* | money | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 5 | **check** | infinitive | Dry January *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | that drinking | a choice and a need | | | | | tree rules | 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:15`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/14/) - next →: [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/)