--- title: "Worse for wear" in Britain means drunk or badly hungover; a hangove… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs · tree and pragmatics description: "Worse for wear" in Britain means drunk or badly hungover; a hangover is the headache and sick feeling the morning after drinking too much. Who acts: Worse, hangover. 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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 (Worse, hangover), 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:6 # text = "Worse for wear" in Britain means drunk or badly hungover; a hangover is the headache and sick feeling the morning after drinking too much. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 nsubj _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 wear wear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nmod 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 drunk drunk ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 12 hungover hungover ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hangover hangover NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 headache headache NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 21 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 after after SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 much much ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Worse | drunk | | | | in Britain | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot drunk=Theme in britain=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | present | a hangover | the headache | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | gerund | a hangover *not said here* | | | | morning | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **drink** | gerund | a hangover *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/5/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/)