--- title: For drinking, people joke or are polite: someone is "merry", "tipsy"… — Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty an… · tree and pragmatics description: For drinking, people joke or are polite: someone is "merry", "tipsy" or has had "one too many" instead of being plainly drunk. Who acts: people, someone. 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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 (people, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:2 # text = For drinking, people joke or are polite: someone is "merry", "tipsy" or has had "one too many" instead of being plainly drunk. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 029-lying-and-drinking.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 2 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 joke joke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 tipsy tipsy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 obj _ _ 24 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 27 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 31 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:case 28 of of ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 cop _ _ 30 plainly plainly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 drunk drunk ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 32 . . 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 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | people | | | | | for drinking | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | polite *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | someone | | | | | merry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present · perfect | people *not said here* | one | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 5 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | drunk, plainly *property* | 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:euphemisms:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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: [Soft words for hard things: lying and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: lying and…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/)