bashful

Who acts: Bashful, bashful girl, He, they, bashful puppy · What happens: mean, not want, look, speak, hide, go · To what, where: shy, front, him, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

«bashful» 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: bashful in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Bashful means shy and easily embarrassed, not wanting to be looked at or to speak in front of others.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bashful	bashful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 embarrassed	cc
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 embarrassed	advmod
6	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shy	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanting	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 wanting	advmod
9	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	12 looked	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 looked	aux:pass
12	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wanting	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	12 looked	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 speak	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 speak	mark
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 looked	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 front	case
18	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 speak	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 others	case
20	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 front	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	Bashful	shy		tree rules
2	not want	gerund				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive			front of others	vn talk-37.5 «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 bashful girl hid behind her mother.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	bashful	bashful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the bashful girl					behind girl's mother	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind mother=Location

Example 2

He went red when they praised him, he was so bashful.

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 praised	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 praised	nsubj
6	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 praised	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bashful	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bashful	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bashful	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 bashful	advmod
12	bashful	bashful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	parataxis
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	He		red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	praise	past	they	him = he		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past	he		bashful property	tree rules

Example 3

The bashful puppy would not come out from under the bed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 puppy	det
2	bashful	bashful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puppy	amod
3	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 bed	case
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come out	would	the bashful puppy			the bed		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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