lunacy

Who acts: Lunacy, act, It, plan, His · What happens: be, make, climb, plan, shout · To what, where: great foolishness, sense, sheer lunacy, cliff, storm, pure lunacy

«lunacy» 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: lunacy in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Lunacy is great foolishness or madness, an act that makes no sense. (Old-fashioned word for madness.).

Sentence 1: Lunacy is great foolishness or madness, an act that makes no sense.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lunacy	Lunacy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 foolishness	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 foolishness	cop
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 foolishness	amod
4	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 madness	cc
6	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foolishness	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 act	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 act	det
9	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foolishness	appos
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 makes	nsubj
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 act	acl:relcl
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 sense	det
13	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 foolishness	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lunacy	great foolishness or madness					tree rules
2	make	present	a act	no sense					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product

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.

Sentence 2: (Old-fashioned word for madness.).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 word	punct
2	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fashioned	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Old	punct
4	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 madness	case
7	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 word	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 word	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 word	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 1

It was sheer lunacy to climb the cliff in the storm.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lunacy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lunacy	cop
3	sheer	sheer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lunacy	amod
4	lunacy	lunacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 climb	mark
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lunacy	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cliff	det
8	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climb	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 storm	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 storm	det
11	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climb	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lunacy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	sheer lunacy					tree rules
2	climb	to-infinitive		the cliff		the storm			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cliff=Theme

Example 2

His plan was pure lunacy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 plan	nmod:poss
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lunacy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lunacy	cop
4	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lunacy	amod
5	lunacy	lunacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lunacy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	His plan	pure lunacy					tree rules
2	plan		His = he						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

«Lunacy!» shouted the angry man.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Lunacy	punct
2	Lunacy	lunacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouted	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Lunacy	punct
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Lunacy	punct
5	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouted	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shouted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	Lunacy	the angry man					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic

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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