incredible
Who acts: cake, magician, gods · What happens: be, believe, do, travel · To what, where: incredible trick, incredible distances
«incredible» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: incredible in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
So amazing that it is hard to believe: an incredible trick.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 amazing | advmod |
| 2 | amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 hard | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hard | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hard | cop |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 amazing | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 believe | mark |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hard | ccomp |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 trick | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 trick | det |
| 11 | incredible | incredible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trick | amod |
| 12 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 amazing | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 amazing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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: informal — kept apart, not parsed.
Very good: that cake was incredible!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 good | advmod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 incredible | punct |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 cake | det |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 incredible | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 incredible | cop |
| 7 | incredible | incredible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 good | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 good | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that cake | incredible property | tree rules |
Example 1
The magician did an incredible trick.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trick | det |
| 5 | incredible | incredible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trick | amod |
| 6 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the magician | a incredible trick | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality |
Example 2
The gods could travel incredible distances.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gods | det |
| 2 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 travel | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 travel | aux |
| 4 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | incredible | incredible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 distances | amod |
| 6 | distances | distance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 travel | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | could | the gods | incredible distances | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory |
Example 3
That cake was incredible!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 cake | det |
| 2 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 incredible | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 incredible | cop |
| 4 | incredible | incredible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 incredible | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that cake | incredible 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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