Who acts: She, He, dog, spy, feigned smile, Her · What happens: pretend, show, not feel, feel, be, form · To what, where: outside, Past form, something, feign, present, illness · Speech: someone speaks here
«feigned» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 7 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: feigned in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Pretended; shown on the outside but not truly felt.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Pretended
pretend
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
root
root
2
;
;
PUNCT
_
3 shown
punct
3
shown
show
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
1 Pretended
conj
4
on
on
ADP
_
6 outside
case
5
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
6 outside
det
6
outside
outside
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 shown
obl
7
but
but
CCONJ
_
10 felt
cc
8
not
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
10 felt
advmod
9
truly
truly
ADV
_
10 felt
advmod
10
felt
feel
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
1 Pretended
conj
11
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Pretended
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
pretend
participle
tree rules
2
show
participle
the outside
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3
notfeel
participle
truly property
vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
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.
Meaning 2
Past form of feign: having pretended to feel or be something.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Past
past
ADJ
Degree=Pos
2 form
amod
2
form
form
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
3
of
of
ADP
_
4 feign
case
4
feign
feign
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 form
nmod
5
:
:
PUNCT
_
7 pretended
punct
6
having
have
AUX
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
7 pretended
aux
7
pretended
pretend
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
2 form
acl
8
to
to
PART
_
9 feel
mark
9
feel
feel
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
7 pretended
xcomp
10
or
or
CCONJ
_
12 something
cc
11
be
be
AUX
VerbForm=Inf
12 something
cop
12
something
something
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
9 feel
conj
13
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 form
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
pretend
gerund · perfect
Past form of feign not said here
tree rules
2
feel
to-infinitive
vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3
is a
infinitive
something
tree rules
4
form
feign
nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient
Example 1
She gasped with feigned surprise when she opened the present she had already seen.
The tree, 14 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
2
feign
participle
well property
vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3
intonate
feigned curiosity
nom tone «communication 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.