churlish

Who acts: one, It, churlish farmer · What happens: behave, speak, be, not say, thank, refuse · To what, where: way, you · Speech: someone speaks here

«churlish» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: churlish in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Rude, grumpy and unkind in the way one behaves or speaks.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grumpy	punct
3	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rude	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 unkind	cc
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rude	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unkind	obl
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 behaves	nsubj
10	behaves	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 way	acl:relcl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 speaks	cc
12	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 behaves	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Rude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behave	present	one	the way not said here					tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present	one not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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

It was churlish of him not to say thank you.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 churlish	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 churlish	cop
3	churlish	churlish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 churlish	obl
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 say	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 churlish	parataxis
9	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	xcomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 thank	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 churlish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		of him = he; churlish property	tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	thank speech: thank	infinitive		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Example 2

Only a churlish farmer would refuse to help.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 farmer	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
3	churlish	churlish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 farmer	amod
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refuse	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 refuse	aux
6	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 refuse	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 refuse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	would	a churlish farmer						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not help	to-infinitive	a churlish farmer not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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