blighted
Who acts: blighted apples, wet summer, flood, Their · What happens: spoil, damage, ruin, blight, fall, leave · To what, where: disease, fields, hopes
«blighted» 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: blighted in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Spoiled, damaged or ruined, especially by disease, bad weather or bad luck.
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 damaged | punct |
| 3 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Spoiled | conj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 ruined | cc |
| 5 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Spoiled | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 disease | punct |
| 7 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 9 disease | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 disease | case |
| 9 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ruined | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 weather | punct |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 weather | amod |
| 12 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disease | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 luck | cc |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 luck | amod |
| 15 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weather | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spoiled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | damage | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ruin | participle | disease and bad weather or bad luck | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Patient |
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 blighted apples fell to the ground.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 apples | det |
| 2 | blighted | blight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 apples | amod |
| 3 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blight | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | fall | past | the blighted apples | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
Example 2
The wet summer left the fields blighted.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 summer | det |
| 2 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 summer | amod |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fields | det |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | blighted | blight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fields | acl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the wet summer | the fields | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blight | participle | the fields not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Example 3
Their hopes were blighted by the flood.
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 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blighted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blighted | aux:pass |
| 4 | blighted | blight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 flood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flood | det |
| 7 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blighted | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blighted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blight | past · passive | the flood | Their hopes | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hope | Their = they | nom hope «feeling 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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