ninny
Who acts: silly person, you, sea, ninny, fox · What happens: not think, do, not be, be, believe, say · To what, where: ninny, word · Speech: someone speaks here
«ninny» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: ninny in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A silly person who does not think clearly; a fool.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 think | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 think | advmod |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 person | acl:relcl |
| 8 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 7 think | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 fool | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fool | det |
| 11 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 person | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 person | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | a silly person and a fool | clearly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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
Don't be a ninny, the sea is cold.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ninny | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ninny | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ninny | det |
| 5 | ninny | ninny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cold | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cold | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cold | cop |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ninny | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a | infinitive | a ninny | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the sea | cold property | tree rules |
Example 2
The ninny believed every word the fox said.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ninny | det |
| 2 | ninny | ninny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 believed | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | acl:relcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | the ninny | every word | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | every word not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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