prosaic

Who acts: cow, prosaic answer, His, We, story · What happens: be, disappoint, answer, go, fly, have · To what, where: prosaic animal, children, flying carpet, prosaic ending

«prosaic» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 4 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: prosaic in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Ordinary and dull; not imaginative or exciting.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dull	cc
3	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ordinary	conj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 imaginative	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 imaginative	advmod
6	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ordinary	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 exciting	cc
8	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 imaginative	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ordinary	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 1

The cow is a prosaic animal, not a magic one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 animal	det
5	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 one	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	appos
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 animal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cow	a prosaic animal					tree rules

Example 2

His prosaic answer disappointed the children.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 answer	nmod:poss
2	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answer	amod
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappointed	nsubj
4	disappointed	disappoint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 disappointed	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disappointed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappoint	past	His prosaic answer	the children					tree rules
2	answer		His = he						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

We went by a prosaic bus, not a flying carpet.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 bus	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bus	det
5	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bus	amod
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carpet	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 carpet	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 carpet	det
10	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 carpet	amod
11	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	We	a flying carpet				by a prosaic bus	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by bus=Location
2	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 4

The story had a prosaic ending.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ending	det
5	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ending	amod
6	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the story	a prosaic ending					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Patient

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