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brainless

Who acts: That, Jellyfish, scarecrow, he, you, film · What happens: not think, have, be, do, sting, think · To what, where: all, brain, brainless thing, helmet · Speech: someone speaks here

«brainless» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 5 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: brainless in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Usage: informal, rude — kept apart, not parsed.

Stupid; not thinking at all.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 thinking	advmod
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stupid	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 thinking	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stupid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	gerund				all			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Meaning 2

Having no brain, as in some simple animals.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 brain	det
3	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Having	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 animals	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 animals	case
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 animals	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 animals	det
8	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Having	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 animals	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund		no brain				as some simple animals	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient

Example 1

That was a brainless thing to do!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	brainless	brainless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a brainless thing					tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

Jellyfish are brainless but they can still sting.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brainless	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brainless	cop
3	brainless	brainless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 sting	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sting	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sting	aux
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 sting	advmod
8	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 brainless	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brainless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Jellyfish					brainless property	tree rules
2	sting	can	Jellyfish				still		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Example 3

The scarecrow thought he was brainless.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scarecrow	det
2	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brainless	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brainless	cop
6	brainless	brainless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	ccomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the scarecrow						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					brainless property	tree rules

Example 4

Don't be brainless – put your helmet on.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 brainless	advmod
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 brainless	cop
4	brainless	brainless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Do	obj
5	–	-	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 brainless	csubj
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 helmet	nmod:poss
8	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	6 put	compound:prt
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	infinitive						brainless property	tree rules
3	put on	infinitive		your helmet					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent helmet=Goal

Example 5

The film was fun but brainless.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 film	det
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fun	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fun	cop
4	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 brainless	cc
6	brainless	brainless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fun	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fun	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the film					fun property	tree rules
2	be		the film not said here						tree rules

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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