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title: Drinking too much alcohol changes how people act: slurring words, st… — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Drinking too much alcohol changes how people act: slurring words, stumbling, forgetting, getting loud. Who acts: Drinking, people. A sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 32

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Drinking too much alcohol changes how people act: slurring words, stumbling, forgetting, getting loud.

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**Who acts:** Drinking, people · **What happens:** drink, change, act, slur, stumble, forget · **To what, where:** much alcohol, slurring words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» of the everyday 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 (Drinking, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:32
# text = Drinking too much alcohol changes how people act: slurring words, stumbling, forgetting, getting loud.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	act	act	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
10	slurring	slur	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
18	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund |  | much alcohol |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient |
| 2 | **change** | present | Drinking |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **act** | present | people | slurring words |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **slur** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stumble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **forget** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:32`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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