--- title: "I need a drink" usually just means "I've had a hard day", but using… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics description: "I need a drink" usually just means "I've had a hard day", but using alcohol every time things go wrong can turn into a hard habit. Who acts: people, things, using. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/) / 17 # Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 17 "I need a drink" usually just means "I've had a hard day", but using alcohol every time things go wrong can turn into a hard habit. **Who acts:** people, things, using · **What happens:** need, mean, have, use, go, turn · **To what, where:** drink, alcohol, time, hard habit · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, things, using), 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:17 # text = "I need a drink" usually just means "I've had a hard day", but using alcohol every time things go wrong can turn into a hard habit. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 20 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj 21 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advcl 26 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 29 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **need** *in a quote* | present | people | a drink | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | people | | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **use** | gerund | | alcohol | | | time | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient | | 5 | **go** | present | things | every time *not said here* | | | | wrong *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | | 6 | **turn** | can | using | | | a hard habit | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into habit=Trajectory | 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:17`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/16/) - next →: [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/)