bungling

Who acts: Bungling, bungling baker, I, bungling helper · What happens: be, lack, mean, make, mess, burn · To what, where: skill, mess, things, bread, sum, whole game

«bungling» 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: bungling in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To bungle is to do a job badly, through clumsiness or lack of skill.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bungle	mark
2	bungle	bungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	advcl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 job	det
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj
8	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 do	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 clumsiness	punct
10	through	through	ADP	_	11 clumsiness	case
11	clumsiness	clumsiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 lack	cc
13	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clumsiness	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 skill	case
15	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lack	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						badly, do property	tree rules
2	lack			skill					nom lack «state transitive»: of=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.

Meaning 2

Bungling means clumsy and unskilled, making a mess of things.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bungling	bungling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 unskilled	cc
5	unskilled	unskilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clumsy	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 making	punct
7	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mess	det
9	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 making	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 things	case
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mess	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Bungling		clumsy property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	make	gerund	Bungling not said here	a mess of things		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mess=Product
3	mess			things		nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient

Example 1

The bungling baker burned the bread.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baker	det
2	bungling	bungling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 baker	compound
3	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	the bungling baker	the bread					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

Example 2

I bungled the sum and had to start again.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 bungled	nsubj
2	bungled	bungle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sum	det
4	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bungled	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bungled	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 start	mark
8	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 start	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bungled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	bungle	past	I	the sum		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sum=Patient
2	have	past	I not said here			tree rules
3	start	to-infinitive	I not said here		again	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Example 3

A bungling helper can spoil the whole game.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 helper	det
2	bungling	bungling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helper	compound
3	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoil	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spoil	aux
5	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 game	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 game	amod
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoil	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoil	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spoil	can	a bungling helper	the whole game					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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