--- title: Drinking too much alcohol and taking drugs can harm people, and talk… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs · tree and pragmatics description: Drinking too much alcohol and taking drugs can harm people, and talking about it plainly can feel embarrassing. Who acts: Drinking, talking. 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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 (Drinking, talking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:030-drinking-and-drugs.lesson:0 # text = Drinking too much alcohol and taking drugs can harm people, and talking about it plainly can feel embarrassing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 030-drinking-and-drugs.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Drinking drink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 7 drugs drug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 plainly plainly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 19 embarrassing embarrassing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **drink** | gerund | | much alcohol | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient | | 2 | **take** | gerund | | drugs | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drug=Theme | | 3 | **harm** | can | Drinking | people | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | about alcohol; plainly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 5 | **feel** | can | talking | | | | | embarrassing *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:030-drinking-and-drugs.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/)