Who acts: milk, It, She, you, weather, I · What happens: see, smell, taste, feel, go off, be · To what, where: nasty smell, nasty fall, nasty cut, plaster, nasty cold
«nasty» in the school dictionary: its 3 meanings for a pupil and its 7 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: nasty in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Very unpleasant to see, smell, taste or feel: «a nasty smell».
The tree, 11 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Very
very
ADV
_
2 unpleasant
advmod
2
unpleasant
unpleasant
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
3
to
to
PART
_
4 see
mark
4
see
see
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
2 unpleasant
xcomp
5
,
,
PUNCT
_
6 smell
punct
6
smell
smell
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
4 see
conj
7
,
,
PUNCT
_
8 taste
punct
8
taste
taste
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
4 see
conj
9
or
or
CCONJ
_
10 feel
cc
10
feel
feel
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
4 see
conj
11
:
:
PUNCT
_
15 smell
punct
12
«
«
PUNCT
_
15 smell
punct
13
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
15 smell
det
14
nasty
nasty
ADJ
Degree=Pos
15 smell
amod
15
smell
smell
NOUN
Number=Sing
10 feel
obj
16
»
»
PUNCT
_
15 smell
punct
17
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 unpleasant
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
see
to-infinitive
vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2
smell
infinitive
vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3
taste
infinitive
vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4
feel
infinitive
a nasty smell
vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=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.
Meaning 2
Unkind and mean: «a nasty comment».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Unkind
unkind
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
2
and
and
CCONJ
_
3 mean
cc
3
mean
mean
ADJ
Degree=Pos
1 Unkind
conj
4
:
:
PUNCT
_
8 comment
punct
5
«
«
PUNCT
_
8 comment
punct
6
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
8 comment
det
7
nasty
nasty
ADJ
Degree=Pos
8 comment
amod
8
comment
comment
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Unkind
obl
9
»
»
PUNCT
_
8 comment
punct
10
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Unkind
punct
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Meaning 3
Bad, serious or dangerous: «a nasty cut», «a nasty fall».
The tree, 10 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Bad
bad
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 serious
amod
2
,
,
PUNCT
_
3 serious
punct
3
serious
serious
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
4
or
or
CCONJ
_
5 dangerous
cc
5
dangerous
dangerous
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 serious
conj
6
:
:
PUNCT
_
10 cut
punct
7
«
«
PUNCT
_
10 cut
punct
8
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
10 cut
det
9
nasty
nasty
ADJ
Degree=Pos
10 cut
amod
10
cut
cut
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 serious
parataxis
11
»
»
PUNCT
_
10 cut
punct
12
,
,
PUNCT
_
16 fall
punct
13
«
«
PUNCT
_
16 fall
punct
14
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
16 fall
det
15
nasty
nasty
ADJ
Degree=Pos
16 fall
amod
16
fall
fall
NOUN
Number=Sing
10 cut
conj
17
»
»
PUNCT
_
16 fall
punct
18
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 serious
punct
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus
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.