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contrive

Who acts: clever, She, Dad, I · What happens: manage, mean, do, bring, make, build · To what, where: something, result, queue, shelf, old box, way · Speech: someone speaks here

«contrive» 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: contrive in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To manage, by some clever means, to do something or bring a result about.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 manage	mark
2	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 means	mark
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 clever	det
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 manage	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	ccomp
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 do	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 bring	cc
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 do	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 result	det
15	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obj
16	about	about	ADV	_	13 bring	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 manage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	to-infinitive							vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	some clever						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive		something					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	bring	infinitive		a result				about property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent result=Theme

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

To make or build something cleverly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 build	cc
4	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 build	obj
6	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	_	4 build	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	build	infinitive		something				cleverly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset something=Product

Example 1

She contrived to be first in the queue.

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 contrived	nsubj
2	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 first	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 first	cop
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 contrived	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 queue	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 queue	det
8	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 first	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contrived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contrive	past	She						vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	She not said here			the queue		first property	tree rules

Example 2

Dad contrived a shelf from an old box.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contrived	nsubj
2	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shelf	det
4	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contrived	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 box	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 box	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 box	amod
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contrived	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contrived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contrive	past	Dad	a shelf		a old box			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent shelf=Result from box=Material

Example 3

I must contrive a way to get home before dark.

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	3 contrive	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 contrive	aux
3	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contrive	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 dark	case
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 contrive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contrive	must	I	a way					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Result
2	get	to-infinitive	I not said here	a way not said here			before dark	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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