moralise

Who acts: teacher, old tale, you, I · What happens: moralise, be, write, draw, tell, not moralise · To what, where: preachy way, lesson, story, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

«moralise» 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: moralise in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To moralise is to talk or write about right and wrong, often in a preachy way, drawing a lesson from a story.

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 moralise	mark
2	moralise	moralise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 talk	mark
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 moralise	ccomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 write	cc
7	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 moralise	conj
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 right	advmod
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 write	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wrong	cc
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 right	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
13	often	often	ADV	_	17 way	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 way	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	preachy	preachy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 write	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drawing	punct
19	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 write	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lesson	det
21	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drawing	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 story	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 story	det
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drawing	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 moralise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	moralise	to-infinitive				tree rules
2	is	present			talk property	tree rules
3	write	infinitive		a preachy way		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in way=Destination
4	draw	gerund	a lesson	a story		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme from story=Initial_Location

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 teacher moralised about telling the truth.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moralised	nsubj
3	moralised	moralise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 telling	mark
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 moralised	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moralised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moralise	past	the teacher						tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	the teacher not said here	the truth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

Example 2

The old tale moralises: be kind to all.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tale	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tale	amod
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moralises	nsubj
4	moralises	moralise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 kind	cop
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moralises	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 kind	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 moralises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moralise	present	the old tale						tree rules
2	is	infinitive	the old tale not said here					to all; kind property	tree rules

Example 3

Don't moralise at me; I know what is right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 moralise	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 moralise	advmod
3	moralise	moralise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 moralise	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 moralise	parataxis
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 know	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moralise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not moralise	imperative · do-support	you not said here	at me	tree rules
2	know	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present		right property	tree rules

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