gibberish
Who acts: Gibberish talk, words, baby, I, it, wizard · What happens: be, make, not be, babble, not read, mutter · To what, where: Gibberish talk, sense, real words, gibberish, this
«gibberish» 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: gibberish in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Gibberish is talk or writing that makes no sense, or words that are not real words.
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gibberish | gibberish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talk | compound |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 talk | cop |
| 3 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 writing | cc |
| 5 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talk | conj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 talk | acl:relcl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 sense | det |
| 9 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 words | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 words | cc |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 makes | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 words | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 words | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 words | advmod |
| 16 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 words | amod |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 words | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Gibberish talk or writing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Gibberish talk or writing | no sense | words obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product | |||
| 3 | not is a | present | words | real words | 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
The baby babbled gibberish.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 babbled | nsubj |
| 3 | babbled | babble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gibberish | gibberish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 babbled | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 babbled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | babble | past | the baby | gibberish | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gibberish=Topic |
Example 2
I can't read this; it is gibberish.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 read | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 read | advmod |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 read | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 gibberish | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gibberish | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gibberish | cop |
| 9 | gibberish | gibberish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read | can | I | this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | gibberish | tree rules |
Example 3
The wizard muttered gibberish and the door opened.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wizard | det |
| 2 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 muttered | nsubj |
| 3 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gibberish | gibberish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 door | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gibberish | conj |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 muttered | parataxis |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 muttered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutter speech: assert | past | the wizard | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | open | past | gibberish and the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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