lifelike

Who acts: Lifelike, thing, painting, I, clay figure, wax model · What happens: mean, look, be, touch · To what, where: thing, painting

«lifelike» 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: lifelike in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Lifelike means so like a real person or thing that it looks alive.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lifelike	Lifelike	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 means	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 person	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 thing	cc
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 person	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 looks	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looks	nsubj
12	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	acl:relcl
13	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looks	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Lifelike					like a real person or thing	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	look	present	thing	thing not said here				alive property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Attribute

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 painting of the horse was so lifelike I touched it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 painting	det
2	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifelike	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 horse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painting	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lifelike	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 lifelike	advmod
8	lifelike	lifelike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 touched	nsubj
10	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lifelike	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 touched	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lifelike	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the painting of the horse					lifelike property	tree rules
2	touch	past	I	painting					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Example 2

The clay figure looked lifelike.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 figure	det
2	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 figure	compound
3	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lifelike	lifelike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the clay figure					lifelike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Example 3

The wax model is very lifelike.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 model	det
2	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 model	compound
3	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifelike	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lifelike	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 lifelike	advmod
6	lifelike	lifelike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lifelike	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the wax model					lifelike 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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