morality

Who acts: Morality, people, Stories, fairy tale, gods · What happens: know, be, behave, teach, have · To what, where: set, morality, young children, clear morality, little morality · Speech: someone speaks here

«morality» 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: morality in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Morality is knowing what is right and wrong, and a set of rules about how people should behave.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Morality	morality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knowing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knowing	aux
3	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 right	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knowing	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wrong	cc
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 right	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 set	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 set	det
12	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knowing	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 rules	case
14	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 set	nmod
15	about	about	SCONJ	_	19 behave	mark
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 behave	advmod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 behave	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 behave	aux
19	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 rules	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knowing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present · progressive	Morality	a set of rules		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present			right property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules
4	behave	should	people			vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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

Stories can teach morality to young children.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teach	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 teach	aux
3	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	morality	morality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teach	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teach	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 teach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	can	Stories	morality	young children				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent morality=Topic to child=Recipient

Example 2

The fairy tale has a clear morality: be honest.

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	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tale	amod
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 morality	det
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 morality	amod
7	morality	morality	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 honest	punct
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 honest	cop
10	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 has	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the fairy tale	a clear morality					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morality=Patient
2	is	infinitive	the fairy tale not said here					honest property	tree rules

Example 3

Homer's gods have little morality.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gods	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Homer	case
3	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 morality	amod
6	morality	morality	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Homer's gods	little morality					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morality=Patient

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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