displease
Who acts: Noisy talking, rude answer, Your, mess, I, Nothing · What happens: displease, be, cross, fail, not please, answer · To what, where: someone, them, teacher, queen, Mum, him
«displease» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 4 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: displease in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To displease someone is to make them cross or unhappy, or to fail to please them.
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 displease | mark |
| 2 | displease | displease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | csubj |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 displease | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 unhappy | cc |
| 10 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cross | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fail | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 fail | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fail | mark |
| 14 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 please | mark |
| 16 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fail | xcomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 please | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | displease | to-infinitive | someone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | make property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cross | infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fail | to-infinitive | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | not please | to-infinitive | them = they | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=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
Noisy talking displeases the teacher.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talking | amod |
| 2 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 displeases | nsubj |
| 3 | displeases | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 displeases | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 displeases | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | displease | present | Noisy talking | the teacher | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus teacher=Experiencer |
Example 2
Your rude answer displeased the queen.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 answer | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answer | amod |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 displeased | nsubj |
| 4 | displeased | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 displeased | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 displeased | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | displease | past | Your rude answer | the queen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus queen=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer | Your | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Example 3
The mess displeased Mum.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mess | det |
| 2 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 displeased | nsubj |
| 3 | displeased | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 displeased | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 displeased | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | displease | past | the mess | Mum | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mum=Experiencer |
Example 4
Nothing I did seemed to displease him.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 displease | mark |
| 6 | displease | displease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 displease | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | Nothing | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | displease | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | him = he | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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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