cantankerous

Who acts: Cantankerous, grandad, Nobody · What happens: mean, temper, please, be, shout, want · To what, where: cantankerous old man, cantankerous farmer · Speech: someone speaks here

«cantankerous» 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: cantankerous in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Cantankerous means bad-tempered, quarrelsome and hard to please.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cantankerous	Cantankerous	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tempered	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 bad	punct
5	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 quarrelsome	punct
7	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tempered	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hard	cc
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quarrelsome	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 please	mark
11	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hard	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	mean	present	Cantankerous	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	temper	participle		tree rules
3	please	to-infinitive		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 grandad is cantankerous before breakfast.

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	2 grandad	nmod:poss
2	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cantankerous	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cantankerous	cop
4	cantankerous	cantankerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 breakfast	case
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cantankerous	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cantankerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	My grandad				before breakfast	cantankerous property	tree rules

Example 2

The cantankerous old man shouted at the children.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	cantankerous	cantankerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 man	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 children	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shouted	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle		the cantankerous old man not said here				at the children	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

Nobody wanted to help the cantankerous farmer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 help	mark
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farmer	det
6	cantankerous	cantankerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 farmer	amod
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Nobody						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here		the cantankerous farmer				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Beneficiary

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