enigma

Who acts: enigma, puzzle, happiness, strange message · What happens: be, understand · To what, where: puzzle, enigma, me

«enigma» 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: enigma in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

An enigma is a puzzle or a mystery that is hard to understand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 enigma	det
2	enigma	enigma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puzzle	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 puzzle	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 puzzle	det
5	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 mystery	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mystery	det
8	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puzzle	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 hard	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hard	cop
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 puzzle	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 understand	mark
13	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hard	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 puzzle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a enigma	a puzzle or a mystery		tree rules
2	is	present	a puzzle or a mystery		hard property	tree rules
3	understand	to-infinitive	a puzzle or a mystery not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

What this happiness is, is an enigma to me.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 happiness	det
3	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 enigma	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 enigma	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 enigma	det
8	enigma	enigma	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	appos
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 enigma	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this happiness						tree rules
2	is a	present		a enigma	me				tree rules

Example 2

The strange message was an enigma to all of us.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 message	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 message	amod
3	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enigma	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enigma	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 enigma	det
6	enigma	enigma	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 enigma	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 all	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 enigma	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the strange message	a enigma				to all	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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