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title: "One for the road" means one last alcoholic drink before leaving. — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs a… · tree and pragmatics
description: "One for the road" means one last alcoholic drink before leaving. Who acts: One, one last alcoholic drink. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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 and religion and fate, sentence 5

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"One for the road" means one last alcoholic drink before leaving.

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**Who acts:** One, one last alcoholic drink · **What happens:** mean, leave · **To what, where:** one last alcoholic drink

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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 (One, one last alcoholic drink), 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:5
# text = "One for the road" means one last alcoholic drink before leaving.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:NumType=Card
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	alcoholic	alcoholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | One for the road | one last alcoholic drink |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | one last alcoholic drink *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:5`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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