marred

Who acts: it, accident, Rain, scratch · What happens: mar, be · To what, where: something, happiness, picnic, new table

«marred» 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: marred in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To mar something is to spoil it so that it is less good than it was.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 mar	mark
2	mar	mar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 spoil	advcl
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 mar	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spoil	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 spoil	mark
6	spoil	spoil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spoil	obj
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 good	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 good	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 good	cop
12	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 good	amod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spoil	parataxis
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 good	obl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 good	cop
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spoil	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mar	to-infinitive		something		tree rules
2	is	present			spoil property	tree rules
3	is	present	it		than it; good property	tree rules

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

After three happy years an accident marred their happiness.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 marred	obl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 accident	det
6	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marred	nsubj
7	marred	mar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 happiness	nmod:poss
9	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marred	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 marred	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mar	past	a accident	their happiness			year		tree rules

Example 2

Rain marred our picnic.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marred	nsubj
2	marred	mar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 picnic	nmod:poss
4	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marred	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 marred	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mar	participle	Rain	our picnic					tree rules

Example 3

A scratch marred the new table.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scratch	det
2	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marred	nsubj
3	marred	mar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 table	amod
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marred	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 marred	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mar	past	a scratch	the new table					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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