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title: "Party favours" is US slang for illegal drugs at a party, though it… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs · tree and pragmatics
description: "Party favours" is US slang for illegal drugs at a party, though it also means small party gifts. Who acts: Party favours, party. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 20

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"Party favours" is US slang for illegal drugs at a party, though it also means small party gifts.

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**Who acts:** Party favours, party · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** US slang, small party gifts

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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 (Party favours, party), 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:20
# text = "Party favours" is US slang for illegal drugs at a party, though it also means small party gifts.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	favours	favour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Party favours | US slang |  |  |  | for illegal drugs at a party | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | party | small party gifts |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Topic |

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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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**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): no change. **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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