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quaint

Who acts: Quaint, village, old man, Limmershin, We, shop · What happens: mean, have, wear, be, look, sign · To what, where: quaint little cottages, quaint hat, quaint little bird

«quaint» 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: quaint in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Quaint means charmingly old-fashioned or odd in a pleasing way.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	charmingly	charmingly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fashioned	nsubj
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fashioned	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
6	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 odd	cc
8	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fashioned	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 way	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	pleasing	pleasing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fashioned	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Quaint						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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

The village had quaint little cottages.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 village	det
2	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cottages	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cottages	amod
6	cottages	cottage	NOUN	Number=Plur	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 village	quaint little cottages					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Patient

Example 2

The old man wore a quaint hat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hat	det
6	quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hat	amod
7	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	the old man	a quaint hat					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme

Example 3

Limmershin is a quaint little bird.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Limmershin	Limmershin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
4	quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Limmershin	a quaint little bird					tree rules

Example 4

We looked at the quaint shop with its wooden sign.

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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 shop	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shop	det
5	quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shop	amod
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 sign	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sign	nmod:poss
9	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sign	amod
10	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	We					with shop's wooden sign; at the quaint shop	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shop=Theme
2	sign		shop						nom sign «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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