--- title: "Had a few" means has drunk enough alcohol to be drunk. — Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty an… · tree and pragmatics description: "Had a few" means has drunk enough alcohol to be drunk. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/20/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: lying and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/) / 20 # Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 20 "Had a few" means has drunk enough alcohol to be drunk. **What happens:** have, mean, drink · **To what, where:** enough alcohol · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms 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: 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:20 # text = "Had a few" means has drunk enough alcohol to be 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 2 Had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 dep _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 drunk drink VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 ccomp _ _ 9 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 drunk drink VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **drink** | present · perfect | | enough alcohol | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient | | 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive · passive | | enough alcohol *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» | 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:20`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Soft words for hard things: lying and…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/19/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: lying and…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/)