distasteful
Who acts: person, I, smell · What happens: not like, wish, find, be · To what, where: offer
«distasteful» 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: distasteful in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Unpleasant, not liked, or against what a person would wish.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 liked | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 liked | advmod |
| 4 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Unpleasant | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 what | cc |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 liked | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wish | aux |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unpleasant | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | wish | would | a person | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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
I found the offer distasteful.
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 | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 offer | det |
| 4 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | distasteful | distasteful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 found | xcomp |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | the offer | distasteful property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Topic |
Example 2
The smell in the cellar was distasteful.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 smell | det |
| 2 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 distasteful | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cellar | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cellar | det |
| 5 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smell | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 distasteful | cop |
| 7 | distasteful | distasteful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 distasteful | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the smell in the cellar | distasteful property | tree rules |
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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