Who acts: people, You, Toad, puppy, Grandad, incorrigible · What happens: have, not change, correct, do, like, be · To what, where: bad habits, something, incorrigible thief, incorrigible joker, Mum, biscuit · Speech: someone speaks here
«incorrigible» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 7 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: incorrigible in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Having bad habits or faults that cannot be changed or corrected: «an incorrigible liar».
The tree, 15 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Having
have
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
2
bad
bad
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 habits
amod
3
habits
habit
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Having
obj
4
or
or
CCONJ
_
5 faults
cc
5
faults
fault
NOUN
Number=Plur
3 habits
conj
6
that
that
PRON
PronType=Rel
10 changed
nsubj
7
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
10 changed
aux
8
not
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
10 changed
advmod
9
be
be
AUX
VerbForm=Inf
10 changed
aux:pass
10
changed
change
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
3 habits
acl:relcl
11
or
or
CCONJ
_
12 corrected
cc
12
corrected
correct
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
10 changed
conj
13
:
:
PUNCT
_
1 Having
punct
14
«
«
PUNCT
_
17 liar
punct
15
an
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
17 liar
det
16
incorrigible
incorrigible
ADJ
Degree=Pos
17 liar
amod
17
liar
liar
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Having
obl
18
»
»
PUNCT
_
17 liar
punct
19
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Having
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
have
gerund
bad habits or faults
a incorrigible liar obl
vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Patient
2
notchange
can · passive
bad habits or faults
vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3
correctspeech: disagree
participle
vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: 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.
Meaning 2
Usage: playful — kept apart, not parsed.
Always doing something naughty or silly that people half like: «You're incorrigible!».
The tree, 13 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient
2
rush
past
noise's cave
vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cave=Trajectory
3
cryspeech: express
gerund
vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4
villainin a quote
You
tree rules
5
isin a quote
present
you
here
come property
tree rules
6
disturbin a quote
to-infinitive
you not said here
my rest
vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rest=Experiencer
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.