rickety

Who acts: old chair, We · What happens: break, fall apart, creak, be, climb · To what, where: rickety bridge, rickety ladder

«rickety» 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: rickety in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Shaky and likely to break or fall apart; weak and loose.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaky	shaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 likely	cc
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Shaky	conj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 break	mark
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 likely	xcomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 fall	cc
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 break	conj
8	apart	apart	ADV	_	7 fall	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 weak	punct
10	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Shaky	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 loose	cc
12	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weak	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Shaky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	to-infinitive							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	fall apart	infinitive						apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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 rickety bridge creaked under us.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bridge	det
2	rickety	rickety	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bridge	amod
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	creaked	creak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bridge	acl
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 creaked	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bridge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creak	participle		the rickety bridge not said here				under us	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under we=Location

Example 2

The old chair was rickety.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chair	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chair	amod
3	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rickety	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rickety	cop
5	rickety	rickety	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rickety	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old chair					rickety property	tree rules

Example 3

We climbed the rickety ladder to the loft.

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 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladder	det
4	rickety	rickety	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ladder	amod
5	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 loft	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 loft	det
8	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	We	the rickety ladder				to the loft result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ladder=Extent to loft=Result

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