fickleness
Who acts: quality, one, fickleness, you · What happens: be, change, mind, spoil, make, beware · To what, where: mind, picnic, friends, fickleness
«fickleness» 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: fickleness in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
The quality of being fickle: changing one's mind or feelings often and without warning.
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 quality | det |
| 2 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fickle | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 fickle | mark |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fickle | cop |
| 5 | fickle | fickle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 changing | punct |
| 7 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fickle | advcl |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 one | case |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changing | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 feelings | cc |
| 12 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mind | conj |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 warning | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 warning | cc |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 warning | case |
| 16 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fickle | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the quality | fickle property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | gerund | the quality not said here | one's mind or feelings | without warning | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||
| 3 | mind | one | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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
The fickleness of the weather spoiled our picnic.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fickleness | det |
| 2 | fickleness | fickleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoiled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 weather | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weather | det |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fickleness | nmod |
| 6 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 picnic | nmod:poss |
| 8 | picnic | picnic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoiled | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoiled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | past | the fickleness of the weather | our picnic | tree rules |
Example 2
Her fickleness made her friends sad.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fickleness | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fickleness | fickleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Her fickleness | fickleness's friends | sad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
Example 3
Beware the fickleness of fortune.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fickleness | det |
| 3 | fickleness | fickleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Beware | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fortune | case |
| 5 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fickleness | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beware | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware | imperative | you not said here | the fickleness of fortune | tree rules |
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