--- title: "For medicinal purposes" is a joke meaning for drinking or getting h… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs a… · tree and pragmatics description: "For medicinal purposes" is a joke meaning for drinking or getting high, not really for health. Who acts: joke. 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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 (joke), 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:8 # text = "For medicinal purposes" is a joke meaning for drinking or getting high, not really for health. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 2 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 medicinal medicinal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 purposes purpose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 14 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 17 really really ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a joke and health | | | | for medicinal purposes | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | gerund | a joke and health *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drink** | gerund | a joke and health *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | gerund | a joke and health *not said here* | | | | | high *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/7/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/)