laughingstock

Who acts: laughingstock, everyone, you, he · What happens: be, laugh at, do, not be · To what, where: person, laughingstock

«laughingstock» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: laughingstock in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A laughingstock is a person whom everyone laughs at, usually in an unkind way.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 laughingstock	det
2	laughingstock	laughingstock	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	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 laughs	obj
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 laughs	nsubj
8	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	8 laughs	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
11	usually	usually	ADV	_	15 way	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a laughingstock	a person and a unkind way					tree rules
2	laugh at	present	everyone	a person and a unkind way					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme

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

Don't be the laughingstock of the class.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 laughingstock	advmod
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 laughingstock	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 laughingstock	det
5	laughingstock	laughingstock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 class	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 class	det
8	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughingstock	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	infinitive		the laughingstock				of the class	tree rules

Example 2

After the fall, he was the laughingstock of the school.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 fall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fall	det
3	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughingstock	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fall	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laughingstock	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laughingstock	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 laughingstock	det
8	laughingstock	laughingstock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 school	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 school	det
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughingstock	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 laughingstock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	the laughingstock			after the fall	of the school	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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