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puny

Who acts: Puny, puny lion, puny puppy, Tom, Dad, puny plant · What happens: mean, not frighten, not lift, feel, say, need · To what, where: small, anyone, stick, more sun. · Speech: someone speaks here

«puny» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: puny in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Puny means small and weak, not strong or big.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Puny	puny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 weak	cc
5	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 small	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 strong	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 strong	advmod
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 small	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 big	cc
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strong	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Puny	small					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent small=Topic

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.

Meaning 2

Puny can mean small and of little importance.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Puny	Puny	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mean	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mean	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 importance	cc
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 importance	case
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 importance	amod
8	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 small	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	can	Puny					small property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Example 1

A puny lion would not frighten anyone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lion	det
2	puny	puny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lion	amod
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frighten	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 frighten	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 frighten	advmod
6	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 frighten	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 frighten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not frighten	would	a puny lion	anyone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer

Example 2

The puny puppy could not lift the stick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 puppy	det
2	puny	puny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puppy	amod
3	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lift	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lift	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 lift	advmod
6	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stick	det
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lift	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lift	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lift	could	the puny puppy	the stick					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme

Example 3

Tom felt puny after his long illness.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	puny	puny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 illness	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 illness	nmod:poss
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 illness	amod
7	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Tom				after Tom's long illness	puny property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Example 4

Dad said the puny plant needed more sun.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plant	det
4	puny	puny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plant	amod
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needed	nsubj
6	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 sun.	amod
8	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	past	the puny plant	more sun.					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sun.=Theme

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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