failing

Who acts: failing, Everyone, Pride, you · What happens: be, have, fail · To what, where: fault, character, failings, greatest failing, others

«failing» 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: failing in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A failing is a fault or weakness in a person's character or behaviour.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 failing	det
2	failing	failing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fault	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fault	det
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 weakness	cc
7	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fault	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 character	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 character	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 person	case
12	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fault	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 behaviour	cc
14	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 character	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fault	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a failing	a fault or weakness		a person's character or behaviour			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

Everyone has some failings.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 failings	det
4	failings	failing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Everyone	some failings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failing=Patient

Example 2

Pride was his greatest failing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 failing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 failing	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 failing	nmod:poss
4	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 failing	amod
5	failing	failing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 failing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Pride	his greatest failing					tree rules

Example 3

Be kind about the failings of others.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 kind	cop
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 failings	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 failings	det
5	failings	failing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 others	case
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 failings	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					about the failings of others; kind property	tree rules
2	fail			others					nom failing «state transitive»: of=patient

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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