benevolent
Who acts: people, benevolent old farmer, job, Their · What happens: want, help, be, share, job · To what, where: people, trouble, bread
«benevolent» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: benevolent in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Kind and wanting to help people who are in trouble.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wanting | cc |
| 3 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Kind | conj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 help | mark |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanting | xcomp |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 trouble | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 trouble | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 trouble | case |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 people | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | gerund | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | is | present | people | trouble | 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
The benevolent old farmer shared his bread with the hungry travellers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 farmer | det |
| 2 | benevolent | benevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 farmer | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 farmer | amod |
| 4 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shared | nsubj |
| 5 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bread | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shared | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 travellers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 travellers | det |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 travellers | amod |
| 11 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shared | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | the benevolent old farmer | farmer's bread | with the hungry travellers | tree rules |
Example 2
Their job was helping people in trouble; they were gentle and benevolent.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 job | nmod:poss |
| 2 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helping | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 helping | aux |
| 4 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 helping | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 trouble | case |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helping | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 gentle | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gentle | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gentle | cop |
| 11 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 helping | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 benevolent | cc |
| 13 | benevolent | benevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gentle | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 helping | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past · progressive | Their job | people | trouble | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is | past | people | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | people not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | job | Their = they | nom job «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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