--- title: "Merry" and "squiffy" mean a little drunk; "blotto" and "three sheet… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Merry" and "squiffy" mean a little drunk; "blotto" and "three sheets to the wind" mean very drunk; "had a few" means has drunk enough to be drunk. Who acts: Merry, blotto. 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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 (Merry, blotto), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:17 # text = "Merry" and "squiffy" mean a little drunk; "blotto" and "three sheets to the wind" mean very drunk; "had a few" means has drunk enough to be drunk. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Merry Merry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 squiffy squiffy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod 11 drunk drunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 blotto blotto NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 sheets sheet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 drunk drunk ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 nsubj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 34 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 drunk drink VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 ccomp _ _ 36 enough enough ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:aux:pass 39 drunk drink VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 advcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Merry | drunk | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drunk=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | blotto and three sheets to the wind | drunk | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drunk=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | | a few | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **drink** | present · perfect | | | | | | enough *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | drink *property* | 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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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