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title: "Legless" is British slang for so drunk one cannot stand. — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs · tree and pragmatics
description: "Legless" is British slang for so drunk one cannot stand. Who acts: Legless, drunk one. 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 clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 23

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"Legless" is British slang for so drunk one cannot stand.

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**Who acts:** Legless, drunk one · **What happens:** be, not stand · **To what, where:** British slang

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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 (Legless, drunk one), 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:23
# text = "Legless" is British slang for so drunk one cannot stand.
# 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	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Legless	legless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | Legless | British slang |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **stand** | can | drunk one | British slang *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slang=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:23`.

**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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