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title: "One too many" means drunk, having had more alcohol than one should. — Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty an… · tree and pragmatics
description: "One too many" means drunk, having had more alcohol than one should. Who acts: many. 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.
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# Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 21

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"One too many" means drunk, having had more alcohol than one should.

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**Who acts:** many · **What happens:** mean, have · **To what, where:** more alcohol

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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: who acts (many), 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:21
# text = "One too many" means drunk, having had more alcohol than one should.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	having	have	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	aux	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | many |  |  |  |  | drunk *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | gerund · perfect | many *not said here* | more alcohol |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient |

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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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**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:21`.

**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): 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/).

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