impostor

Who acts: impostor, person, two impostors, you, he · What happens: be, pretend, cheat, say, fool, not trust · To what, where: person, order, someone, people, prince, king · Speech: someone speaks here

«impostor» 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: impostor in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

An impostor is a person who pretends to be someone else in order to cheat people.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 impostor	det
2	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 pretends	nsubj
7	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 someone	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 someone	cop
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 pretends	xcomp
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 someone	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 order	case
13	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pretends	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cheat	mark
15	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pretends	advcl
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cheat	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a impostor	a person			tree rules
2	pretend	present	a person		order		tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive	a person not said here	someone		else property	tree rules
4	cheat	to-infinitive	a person not said here	people			vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Source

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 impostor said he was a prince.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 impostor	det
2	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 prince	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prince	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the impostor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	impostor	a prince					tree rules

Example 2

The king was fooled by two impostors.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fooled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fooled	aux:pass
4	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 impostors	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 impostors	nummod
7	impostors	impostor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fooled	obl:agent
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fooled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past · passive	two impostors	the king					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Example 3

Do not trust the impostor; he is a liar.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 trust	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 trust	advmod
3	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 impostor	det
5	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trust	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 liar	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 liar	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 liar	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 liar	det
10	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trust	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trust	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trust	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the impostor					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impostor=Theme
2	is a	present	he	a liar					tree rules

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