blithe
Who acts: blithe bird, She, blithe boy · What happens: show, sing, be, whistle down · To what, where: lane
«blithe» 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: blithe in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.
Cheerful, happy and carefree.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Cheerful | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 carefree | cc |
| 5 | carefree | carefree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cheerful | conj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cheerful | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Meaning 2
Careless, showing little worry, sometimes too much so.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 worry | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Careless | punct |
| 3 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 worry | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 worry | amod |
| 5 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 much | punct |
| 7 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 much | advmod |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 worry | nmod |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Example 1
The blithe bird sang all day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | blithe | blithe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bird | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the blithe bird | day | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
Example 2
She was blithe about the storm.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blithe | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blithe | cop |
| 3 | blithe | blithe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 storm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 storm | det |
| 6 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blithe | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blithe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | She | about the storm; blithe property | tree rules |
Example 3
A blithe boy whistled down the lane.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | blithe | blithe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whistled | nsubj |
| 4 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 whistled | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lane | det |
| 7 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whistled | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whistled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle down | past | a blithe boy | the lane | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lane=Topic |
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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