oaf

Who acts: clumsy person, you, oaf, He · What happens: be, not stand, drop · To what, where: plate, big clumsy oaf

«oaf» 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: oaf in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A clumsy or stupid person who is awkward and slow.

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	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 stupid	cc
4	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clumsy	conj
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 awkward	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 awkward	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 awkward	cop
8	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slow	cc
10	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 awkward	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 awkward	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a clumsy person					awkward property	tree rules
2	be		a clumsy person not said here						tree rules

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 stand there like an oaf!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stand	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 stand	advmod
3	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stand	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 oaf	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 oaf	det
7	oaf	oaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stand	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	imperative · do-support	you not said here			there		like a oaf	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

The oaf dropped the plate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 oaf	det
2	oaf	oaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plate	det
5	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the oaf	the plate					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme

Example 3

He is a big, clumsy oaf.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 oaf	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 oaf	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 oaf	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oaf	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct
6	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oaf	amod
7	oaf	oaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 oaf	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a big clumsy oaf					tree rules

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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