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title: If someone in your family drinks too much, it is never your fault; t… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone in your family drinks too much, it is never your fault; tell a trusted adult or call a children's helpline such as Childline (0800 1111 in the UK). Who acts: someone, family. A sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 18

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If someone in your family drinks too much, it is never your fault; tell a trusted adult or call a children's helpline such as Childline (0800 1111 in the UK).

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**Who acts:** someone, family · **What happens:** drink, not be, tell, trust, call · **To what, where:** much, fault, trusted adult, helpline · **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 (someone, family), 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:18
# text = If someone in your family drinks too much, it is never your fault; tell a trusted adult or call a children's helpline such as Childline (0800 1111 in the UK).
# 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 ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	helpline	helpline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	Childline	Childline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
30	0800	0800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	compound	_	_
31	1111	1111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	appos	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **drink** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | much |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | family | your fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** | infinitive |  | a children's helpline |  |  |  | such Childline | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent helpline=Recipient |

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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 ×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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