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beastly

Who acts: It, That, beastly stuff, He · What happens: mean, be, say, taste · To what, where: beastly day, beastly thing, beastly mood · Speech: someone speaks here

«beastly» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 4 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: beastly in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Usage: informal, British, old-fashioned — kept apart, not parsed.

Beastly means very unpleasant, nasty or annoying.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beastly	beastly	ADV	_	2 means	advmod
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 unpleasant	advmod
4	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nasty	punct
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 unpleasant	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 annoying	cc
8	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 unpleasant	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present						beastly, unpleasant property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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.

Meaning 2

Beastly can also mean cruel or unkind.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beastly	beastly	ADV	_	4 mean	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 mean	advmod
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mean	xcomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 unkind	cc
7	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cruel	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	can						beastly, cruel property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Example 1

It's a beastly day, cold and wet.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 day	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 day	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	beastly	beastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cold	punct
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wet	cc
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cold	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a beastly day					tree rules

Example 2

That was a beastly thing to say.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	beastly	beastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a beastly thing					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Example 3

The beastly stuff tasted awful.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stuff	det
2	beastly	beastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stuff	amod
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tasted	nsubj
4	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tasted	xcomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tasted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past	the beastly stuff					awful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Example 4

He was in a beastly mood all morning.

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	6 mood	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mood	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 mood	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mood	det
5	beastly	beastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mood	amod
6	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mood	obl:unmarked
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			a beastly mood	morning		tree rules

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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