droll

Who acts: clown, That, he · What happens: make, be, droll, laugh · To what, where: droll face, droll joke, world · Speech: someone speaks here

«droll» 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: droll in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

funny in a quiet, odd or amusing way.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	9 way	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 odd	punct
6	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quiet	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 amusing	cc
8	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quiet	conj
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 funny	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 funny	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 1

The clown made a droll face.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clown	det
2	clown	clown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 face	det
5	droll	droll	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 face	amod
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the clown	a droll face					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product

Example 2

That was a droll joke.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 joke	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
4	droll	droll	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joke	amod
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 joke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a droll joke					tree rules

Example 3

"How droll the world is!" he laughed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 droll	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 droll	advmod
3	droll	droll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 laughed	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 droll	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 world	cop
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 droll	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 droll	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laughed	nsubj
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	droll in a quote	infinitive	he not said here		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present		the world	tree rules
3	laugh	past	he		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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