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title: "Out of it" means very drunk or high on drugs (feeling strange and n… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs · tree and pragmatics
description: "Out of it" means very drunk or high on drugs (feeling strange and not in control because of a drug). Who acts: drugs. 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 every clau
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# Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 21

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"Out of it" means very drunk or high on drugs (feeling strange and not in control because of a drug).

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**Who acts:** drugs · **What happens:** mean, feel · **To what, where:** party

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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 (drugs), 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:21
# text = "Out of it" means very drunk or high on drugs (feeling strange and not in control because of a drug).
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	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	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	drug	drug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  | party |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | drugs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:030-drinking-and-drugs.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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