childlike
Who acts: Childlike, She, He, childlike faith · What happens: mean, trust, wonder, have, feel, make · To what, where: good way, childlike smile, childlike wonder, snow, her
«childlike» 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: childlike in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Childlike means like a child: trusting, wondering and innocent, in a good way.
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Childlike | Childlike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 child | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 trusting | punct |
| 7 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 means | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wondering | punct |
| 9 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 trusting | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 innocent | cc |
| 11 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trusting | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trusting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Childlike | like a child | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | trust | gerund | Childlike not said here | a good way | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Childlike not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: 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
She had a childlike smile.
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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 smile | det |
| 4 | childlike | childlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 smile | amod |
| 5 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | She | a childlike smile | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Patient |
Example 2
He felt childlike wonder at the snow.
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 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | childlike | childlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wonder | amod |
| 4 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 snow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snow | det |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | He | childlike wonder | the snow | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wonder=Theme at snow=Location |
Example 3
Her childlike faith made her happy.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 faith | nmod:poss |
| 2 | childlike | childlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 faith | amod |
| 3 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Her childlike faith | her = she | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
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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