frivolous

Who acts: trifles, He, you, we, frivolous joke · What happens: care, matter, be, do, not be, have · To what, where: more, frivolous young fellow, work

«frivolous» 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: frivolous in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Silly and not serious; caring more about fun or trifles than about what matters.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 serious	cc
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 serious	advmod
4	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Silly	conj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Silly	punct
6	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Silly	advcl
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 caring	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 fun	case
9	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 trifles	cc
11	trifles	trifle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fun	conj
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 matters	mark
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 matters	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 matters	nsubj
15	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trifles	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Silly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	gerund		more					tree rules
2	matter	present	trifles						vn matter-91 «NP V»: 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.

Example 1

He is a frivolous young fellow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fellow	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
4	frivolous	frivolous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a frivolous young fellow					tree rules

Example 2

Don't be so frivolous when we have work to do.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 frivolous	advmod
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 frivolous	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 frivolous	advmod
5	frivolous	frivolous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Do	csubj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 have	advmod
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frivolous	advcl
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 work	acl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	infinitive			frivolous property	tree rules
3	have	present	we	work		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	we not said here	work not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

A frivolous joke at a sad time is unkind.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 joke	det
2	frivolous	frivolous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 joke	amod
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 unkind	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 joke	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 unkind	cop
9	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 unkind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a frivolous joke at a sad time					unkind property	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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