--- title: A pub is a place where adults meet, talk, sometimes eat and usually… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics description: A pub is a place where adults meet, talk, sometimes eat and usually drink beer; time flies when people chat, so "an hour" often becomes several. Who acts: pub, adults, time, people. 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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 (pub, adults, time, people), 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:9 # text = A pub is a place where adults meet, talk, sometimes eat and usually drink beer; time flies when people chat, so "an hour" often becomes several. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pub pub NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 7 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 10 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 13 advmod _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 usually usually ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 17 beer beer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 chat chat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 often often ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 32 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | a pub | a place | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **meet** | present | adults | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **talk** | present | adults *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | present | adults *not said here* | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **drink** | present | adults *not said here* | beer | | | | usually *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Patient | | 6 | **fly** | present | time | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **chat** *speech: other* | present | people | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **become** | present | a hour | | | | | often, several *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/8/) - next →: [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/)