--- title: "Has a drinking problem" means is an alcoholic, a person who cannot… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: "Has a drinking problem" means is an alcoholic, a person who cannot stop drinking alcohol. Who acts: person. 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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 (person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:24 # text = "Has a drinking problem" means is an alcoholic, a person who cannot stop drinking alcohol. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 004-illness-disability-and-babies.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 ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 nsubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 5 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 alcoholic alcoholic NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 drinking drink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | | a drinking problem | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a alcoholic | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **stop** | can | a person | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **drink** | gerund | a person *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:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:24`. **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 ×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: illness, d…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/23/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/)