--- title: So people use jokes and old slang for being drunk ("legless", "blott… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs · tree and pragmatics description: So people use jokes and old slang for being drunk ("legless", "blotto", "squiffy") and cosy words for drinks ("a nightcap", "refreshments"). Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/1/) [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: drinking a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/) / 1 # Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 1 So people use jokes and old slang for being drunk ("legless", "blotto", "squiffy") and cosy words for drinks ("a nightcap", "refreshments"). **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** use, be · **To what, where:** jokes This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (people), 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:1 # text = So people use jokes and old slang for being drunk ("legless", "blotto", "squiffy") and cosy words for drinks ("a nightcap", "refreshments"). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:aux:pass 10 drunk drunk ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 legless legless NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 17 blotto blotto X FW Foreign=Yes 3 dep _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 squiffy squiffy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 cosy cosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 nightcap nightcap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 refreshments refreshment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 appos _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | people | jokes and old slang | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent joke=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | drunk *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:030-drinking-and-drugs.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/)