loath

Who acts: Loath, He, goddess, I · What happens: mean, unwill, not want, do, go, be · To what, where: something, bed, goodbye, game · Speech: someone speaks here

«loath» 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: loath in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Loath means unwilling, not wanting to do something: loath to go.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loath	loath	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unwilling	unwill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanting	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wanting	advmod
6	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 unwilling	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanting	xcomp
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 do	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 loath	punct
11	loath	loath	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 something	amod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 loath	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	Loath		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	unwill not said to happen	gerund	Loath not said here		tree rules
3	not want	gerund	Loath not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Loath not said here	something	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
5	go	to-infinitive	Loath not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

He was loath to go to bed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loath	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loath	cop
3	loath	loath	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 loath	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loath	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					loath property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	He not said here			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

Example 2

The goddess was loath to say goodbye.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goddess	det
2	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loath	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loath	cop
4	loath	loath	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 loath	csubj
7	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loath	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the goddess					loath property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		goodbye					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic

Example 3

I am loath to spoil the game.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 loath	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 loath	cop
3	loath	loath	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 spoil	mark
5	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 loath	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoil	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loath	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					loath property	tree rules
2	spoil	to-infinitive	I not said here	the game					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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