distantly
Who acts: They, song · What happens: be, sound
«distantly» 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: distantly in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Not closely; only slightly or loosely.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 closely | advmod |
| 2 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 slightly | punct |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 slightly | advmod |
| 5 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 2 closely | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 loosely | cc |
| 7 | loosely | loosely | ADV | _ | 5 slightly | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 closely | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Example 1
They were distantly related.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 related | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 related | cop |
| 3 | distantly | distantly | ADV | _ | 4 related | advmod |
| 4 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 related | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | They | distantly, related property | tree rules |
Example 2
The song sounded distantly familiar.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 song | det |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sounded | nsubj |
| 3 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | distantly | distantly | ADV | _ | 5 familiar | advmod |
| 5 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sounded | xcomp |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the song | familiar property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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