numskull

Who acts: stupid person, you, giant, numskull · What happens: be, understand, do, not be, forget, name · To what, where: numskull, slow numskull, own name

«numskull» 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: numskull in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A stupid or foolish person who is slow to understand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 foolish	cc
4	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stupid	conj
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slow	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 slow	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slow	cop
8	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 understand	mark
10	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 slow	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 slow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a stupid person					slow property	tree rules
2	understand	to-infinitive	a stupid person not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 such a numskull!

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	6 numskull	advmod
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 numskull	cop
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 numskull	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 numskull	det
6	numskull	numskull	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obl
7	!	!	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		such numskull					tree rules

Example 2

The giant was a slow numskull.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 numskull	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 numskull	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 numskull	det
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 numskull	amod
6	numskull	numskull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 numskull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the giant	a slow numskull					tree rules

Example 3

Only a numskull would forget his own name.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 numskull	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 numskull	det
3	numskull	numskull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forget	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 name	amod
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forget	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	a numskull	numskull's own name					tree rules
2	name		numskull						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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