requite
Who acts: they, I, king · What happens: requite, be, do · To what, where: someone, you, kindness, boy
«requite» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: requite in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To requite someone is to pay them back for good or bad that they have done to you.
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 requite | mark |
| 2 | requite | requite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pay | advcl |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 requite | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pay | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pay | mark |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pay | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 pay | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 good | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pay | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 bad | cc |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 good | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 bad | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 done | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | requite | to-infinitive | someone | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | for good; pay property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | they | you | vn act-114-1 «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
I will requite your kindness one day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 requite | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 requite | aux |
| 3 | requite | requite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 requite | obj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 requite | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 requite | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | requite | future | I | your kindness | day | tree rules |
Example 2
The king requited the boy with gold.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 requited | nsubj |
| 3 | requited | requite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 requited | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 requited | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | requite | past | the king | the boy | with gold | 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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