silly

Who acts: way, you, that · What happens: be, say · To what, where: bit · Speech: someone speaks here

«silly» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: silly in the Early Modern English dictionary.

Meaning 1

Foolish or ridiculous in a way that is funny or a bit daft.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 ridiculous	cc
3	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Foolish	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ridiculous	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 funny	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 funny	cop
9	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	acl:relcl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 daft	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 daft	obl:unmarked
13	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 funny	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Foolish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a way					funny property	tree rules
2	be		a way not said here	a bit					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.

Example 1

“Of course you have, you silly.

From Peter Pan.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 silly	punct
2	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 have	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Of	fixed
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 silly	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 silly	nsubj
8	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 silly	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 2

"Who says that you are silly?"

From Fifty Famous Stories Retold.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 silly	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 silly	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 silly	cop
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 silly	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 silly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask in a quote	present							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	you					silly property	tree rules

Example 3

Well, that was one big silly.

From English Fairy Tales.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 silly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 silly	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 silly	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 silly	nsubj
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 silly	amod
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 silly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that					silly property	tree rules

Text: the Early Modern English dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova; its examples quote public-domain texts. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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