--- title: "The drink", said in Ireland as in "he had a problem with the drink"… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs a… · tree and pragmatics description: "The drink", said in Ireland as in "he had a problem with the drink", means alcoholism, being unable to stop drinking alcohol. Who acts: drink, Ireland. 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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 (drink, Ireland), 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:9 # text = "The drink", said in Ireland as in "he had a problem with the drink", means alcoholism, being unable to stop drinking alcohol. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 alcoholism alcoholism NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 cop _ _ 25 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 drinking drink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 29 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the drink *not said here* | | | Ireland | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in ireland=Manner | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Ireland | a problem | | | | with the drink | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | the drink | alcoholism | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcoholism=Topic | | 4 | **is** | gerund | the drink *not said here* | | | | | unable *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the drink *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **drink** | gerund | the drink *not said here* | alcohol | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient | 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:9`. **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 ×2, 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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/8/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/)