inconvenient

Who acts: you, rain, It, your, Sleeping · What happens: cause, get, want, do, come, be · To what, where: trouble, way, bus pass, hard floor

«inconvenient» 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: inconvenient in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Causing trouble or getting in the way of what you want to do: an inconvenient time for a visit.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Causing	obj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 getting	cc
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Causing	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 getting	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 way	nmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 want	xcomp
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Causing	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	inconvenient	inconvenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Causing	obl:unmarked
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 visit	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 visit	det
20	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Causing	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Causing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	gerund		trouble		time	for a visit	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient
2	get	gerund			the way			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	want	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 rain came at an inconvenient time.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	inconvenient	inconvenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the rain				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

It is inconvenient to lose your bus pass.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 inconvenient	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 inconvenient	cop
3	inconvenient	inconvenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lose	mark
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 inconvenient	xcomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pass	nmod:poss
7	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pass	compound
8	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 inconvenient	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		inconvenient property	tree rules
2	lose	to-infinitive		your bus pass		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Eventuality
3	pass		your			nom pass «act transitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

Sleeping on a hard floor is inconvenient.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 inconvenient	csubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 floor	det
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 floor	amod
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sleeping	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 inconvenient	cop
7	inconvenient	inconvenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 inconvenient	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund				a hard floor			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Sleeping					inconvenient 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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