sassy

Who acts: sassy cat, sassy bird, you · What happens: answer back, hop, do, not be · To what, where: lively way

«sassy» 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: sassy in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Cheeky, bold and not polite, answering back in a lively way (mainly American informal).

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bold	punct
3	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cheeky	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 polite	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 polite	advmod
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cheeky	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answering	punct
8	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Cheeky	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 answering	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 way	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answering	obl
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 informal	punct
15	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	17 informal	advmod
16	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 informal	amod
17	informal	informal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 answering	parataxis
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 informal	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Cheeky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer back speech: assert	gerund				a lively way			vn reciprocate-112-1 «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

The sassy cat answered back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	sassy	sassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer back speech: assert	past	the sassy cat						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

The sassy bird hopped about the tree.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	sassy	sassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hopped	nsubj
4	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hopped	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	past	the sassy bird					about the tree	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about tree=Trajectory

Example 3

Don't be sassy to your teacher.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sassy	advmod
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sassy	cop
4	sassy	sassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Do	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 teacher	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teacher	nmod:poss
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sassy	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	infinitive						to your teacher; sassy property	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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