childless

Who acts: Childless, Many childless couples, old people, people · What happens: mean, have, wish, adopt, be · To what, where: children, childless queen, child

«childless» 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: childless in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Childless means having no children.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Childless	childless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 having	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Childless						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have not said to happen	gerund	Childless not said here	no children					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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.

Example 1

The childless queen wished for a baby.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
2	childless	childless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 queen	amod
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 queen	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 baby	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 baby	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wished	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 queen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	participle		the childless queen not said here				for a baby	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for baby=Theme

Example 2

Many childless couples adopt a child.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 couples	amod
2	childless	childless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 couples	amod
3	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 adopt	nsubj
4	adopt	adopt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 adopt	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 adopt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adopt	present	Many childless couples	a child					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

Example 3

The old people were sad because they were childless.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sad	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 childless	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 childless	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 childless	cop
9	childless	childless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old people					sad property	tree rules
2	is	past	people					childless property	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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