bonnie
Who acts: Bonnie, bonnie lassie, We · What happens: mean, look, come, sing · To what, where: song · Speech: someone speaks here
«bonnie» 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: bonnie in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Usage: Scottish and northern — kept apart, not parsed.
Bonnie means pretty, lovely or fine to look at.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonnie | bonnie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 means | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lovely | punct |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | ccomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 fine | cc |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lovely | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fine | csubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 look | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Bonnie | pretty property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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
My bonnie lassie, come here.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lassie | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bonnie | bonnie | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lassie | amod |
| 3 | lassie | lassie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lassie | punct |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | My bonnie lassie | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Example 2
We sang a song about bonnie Dundee.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 song | det |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sang | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 Dundee | case |
| 6 | bonnie | bonnie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Dundee | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Dundee | Dundee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 song | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | We | a song | about Dundee bonnie | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
Example 3
What a bonnie flower in the garden!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 flower | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flower | det |
| 3 | bonnie | bonnie | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flower | amod |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flower | nmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 flower | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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