plight

Who acts: plight, bad situation, He, his · What happens: be, get out, see, not be, swallow, increase · To what, where: bad situation, evil plight, bride, dismal plight, miserable plight · Speech: someone speaks here

«plight» 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: plight in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A plight is a bad or difficult situation that is hard to get out of.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plight	det
2	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 situation	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 situation	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 situation	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 situation	amod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 difficult	cc
7	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bad	conj
8	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 hard	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hard	cop
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 situation	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hard	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 get	advmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 out	fixed
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 situation	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a plight	a bad situation		tree rules
2	is	present	a bad situation		hard property	tree rules
3	get out	to-infinitive	a bad situation not said here			vn withdraw-82-1 «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

He saw that he was in an evil plight again.

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	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 plight	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 plight	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 plight	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 plight	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plight	det
8	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plight	amod
9	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	ccomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	2 saw	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He				again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	he			a evil plight			tree rules

Example 2

Never was a bride seen in such a dismal plight.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 bride	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bride	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bride	det
4	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bride	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 plight	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 plight	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 plight	det
9	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plight	amod
10	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bride	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		a bride					tree rules
2	see	participle		a bride not said here		such dismal plight			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Example 3

The swallowing of sea-water only increased his miserable plight.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swallowing	det
2	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 increased	advcl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sea	punct
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallowing	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 increased	advmod
8	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 plight	nmod:poss
10	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plight	amod
11	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 increased	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 increased	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swallow	gerund			of sea water	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	increase	past		his miserable plight		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer plight=Patient
3	plight		his = he			nom plight «state 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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