dissemble

Who acts: He, face, She, one, her · What happens: hide, pretend, be, try, dissemble, give away · To what, where: true feelings, him, plan

«dissemble» 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: dissemble in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To hide your true feelings or plans by pretending to be different.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feelings	nmod:poss
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feelings	amod
5	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 plans	cc
7	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feelings	conj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 pretending	mark
9	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hide	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 different	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 different	cop
12	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pretending	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive	your true feelings or plans		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
2	pretend	gerund			tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive		different property	tree rules

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

He tried to dissemble, but his face gave him away.

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 dissemble	mark
4	dissemble	dissemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 face	nmod:poss
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 gave	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	He			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	dissemble not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here			tree rules
3	give away	past	his face	him = he	away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Example 2

She dissembled well and no one guessed her plan.

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 dissembled	nsubj
2	dissembled	dissemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 dissembled	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 guessed	cc
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guessed	nsubj
7	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dissembled	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 plan	nmod:poss
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guessed	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dissembled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dissemble	past	She		well property	tree rules
2	guess	past	no one	her plan		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme
3	plan		her = she			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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