delightful

Who acts: Delightful, We, garden, Everything · What happens: mean, give, have, be, come · To what, where: great joy, beach, delightful end

«delightful» 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: delightful in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Delightful means giving great joy or pleasure; very nice.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joy	amod
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giving	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 pleasure	cc
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joy	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 nice	punct
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 nice	advmod
10	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Delightful						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give not said to happen	gerund	Delightful not said here	great joy or pleasure					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=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.

Example 1

We had a delightful day at the beach.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 beach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beach	det
8	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	We			the beach	day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Example 2

The garden was delightful in spring.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 garden	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delightful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delightful	cop
4	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 spring	case
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delightful	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delightful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the garden				spring	delightful property	tree rules

Example 3

Everything came to a delightful end.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 end	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 end	det
5	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 end	amod
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Everything				to a delightful end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location

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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