bleak
Who acts: bleak moor, Clouds, little girl · What happens: look, have, hide, feel · To what, where: trees, sun
«bleak» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: bleak in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Cold, bare and empty of comfort, with no warmth or sun.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 warmth | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bare | punct |
| 3 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Cold | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 empty | cc |
| 5 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Cold | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 comfort | case |
| 7 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 empty | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 warmth | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 warmth | case |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 warmth | det |
| 11 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 sun. | cc |
| 13 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warmth | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Meaning 2
Hopeless, with little to look forward to.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hopeless | hopeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 little | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 little | case |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hopeless | conj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 little | acl |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 look | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 look | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hopeless | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | to-infinitive | forward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Example 1
The bleak moor had no trees.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moor | det |
| 2 | bleak | bleak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moor | amod |
| 3 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 trees | det |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the bleak moor | no trees | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
Example 2
Clouds hid the sun on a bleak winter day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 7 | bleak | bleak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 8 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | compound |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Clouds | the sun | day | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient |
Example 3
The little girl felt alone in the bleak streets.
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 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 felt | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 streets | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 streets | det |
| 8 | bleak | bleak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 streets | compound |
| 9 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 felt | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the little girl | in the bleak streets; alone property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in street=Attribute |
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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