--- title: People often feel awkward talking about drinking too much alcohol or… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs a… · tree and pragmatics description: People often feel awkward talking about drinking too much alcohol or taking drugs, so they use soft or funny words instead: a famous person's office may say they are in hospital with "exhaustion" when the real trouble was drink or drugs. Who acts: People, office, real trouble. 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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 (People, office, real trouble), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:0 # text = People often feel awkward talking about drinking too much alcohol or taking drugs, so they use soft or funny words instead: a famous person's office may say they are in hospital with "exhaustion" when the real trouble was drink or drugs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 awkward awkward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 6 about about SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 drinking drink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 8 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 13 drugs drug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 22 instead instead ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 ccomp _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 exhaustion exhaustion NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 ccomp _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 drugs drug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ _ 47 . . 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 | **feel** | present | People | | | | | awkward, often *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | People *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drink** | gerund | People *not said here* | much alcohol | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient | | 4 | **take** | gerund | People *not said here* | drugs | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drug=Theme | | 5 | **use** | present | People | soft words | | | | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | a famous person's office | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | People | | | hospital | | with exhaustion | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | past | the real trouble | drink or drugs | | | | | 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:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/)