antic

Who acts: silly playful trick, people, kittens, antics, us, clown · What happens: make, laugh, do, antic, stop, sit down · To what, where: people, antics, rug, us, silly antics

«antic» in the school 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: antic in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A silly, playful trick or action that makes people laugh.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trick	det
2	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trick	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 silly	punct
4	playful	playful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trick	amod
5	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 action	cc
7	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trick	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 makes	nsubj
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trick	acl:relcl
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 makes	obj
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 makes	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a silly playful trick or action	people					tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	people not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The kittens did their antics on the rug.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kittens	det
2	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 antics	nmod:poss
5	antics	antic	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 rug	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rug	det
8	rug	rug	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the kittens	kittens's antics		the rug			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antic=Eventuality
2	antic		kittens = kitten						nom antic «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Example 2

The clown's antics made us laugh.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clown	det
2	clown	clown	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 antics	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 clown	case
4	antics	antic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	the clown's antics	us	tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	us not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	antic		the clown		nom antic «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

He stopped his silly antics and sat down.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 antics	nmod:poss
4	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 antics	amod
5	antics	antic	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stopped	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sat	cc
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sat	compound:prt
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	past	He	his silly antics	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector antic=Eventuality
2	sit down	past	He not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	antic		his = he		nom antic «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Text: the school dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. 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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