--- title: Alcoholism, or alcohol addiction, is an illness in which a person ne… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics description: Alcoholism, or alcohol addiction, is an illness in which a person needs alcohol so badly they cannot stop even when it hurts them and their family; people can get better with help. Who acts: Alcoholism, person, alcohol, 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 (Alcoholism, person, alcohol, 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:16 # text = Alcoholism, or alcohol addiction, is an illness in which a person needs alcohol so badly they cannot stop even when it hurts them and their family; people can get better with help. # 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 Alcoholism alcoholism NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 addiction addiction NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 obl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 when when SCONJ WRB _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 34 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 xcomp _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 a** | present | Alcoholism or alcohol addiction | a illness | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | a person | alcohol | | a illness | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot alcohol=Theme | | 3 | **not** **stop** | can | alcohol | | | | | badly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **hurt** | present | drinking | alcohol | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | | 5 | **get** | can | people | | | | | with help; good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:16`. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/15/) - next →: [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/)