briskly
Who acts: Briskly, She, Tink, He · What happens: mean, walk, sit up, shake, say · To what, where: glass floor, bed, ears, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
«briskly» 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: briskly in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Briskly means quickly and with energy, in a lively way.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Briskly | briskly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 means | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 energy | cc |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 energy | case |
| 6 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quickly | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 way | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Briskly | quickly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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.
Example 1
She walked briskly across the glass floor.
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 | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | briskly | briskly | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floor | compound |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | She | the glass floor | briskly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory |
Example 2
Tink sat up briskly in bed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tink | Tink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | briskly | briskly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sat | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit up | past | Tink | bed | briskly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
Example 3
He shook his ears briskly and said nothing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ears | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shook | obj |
| 5 | briskly | briskly | ADV | _ | 2 shook | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shook | conj |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 said | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shook | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | He | his ears | briskly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | He not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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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