scanty

Who acts: Such scanty fare, scanty grass · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: hill

«scanty» 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: scanty in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Small in amount; not enough, or only just enough.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 amount	case
3	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Small	obl
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 enough	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 enough	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Small	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 enough	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 enough	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 enough	advmod
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 enough	advmod
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Small	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Small	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 1

"Such scanty fare is not fit for a Heron."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 fit	punct
2	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fare	amod
3	scanty	scanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fare	compound
4	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fit	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fit	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fit	advmod
7	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 Heron	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Heron	det
10	Heron	Heron	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fit	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fit	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 fit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Such scanty fare					for a Heron; fit property	tree rules

Example 2

The Greek poets offer but scanty allusions to Erebus.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 offer	det
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 offer	amod
3	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 offer	compound
4	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 allusions	cc
6	scanty	scanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 allusions	compound
7	allusions	allusion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 offer	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Erebus	case
9	Erebus	Erebus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 allusions	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 offer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 3

There is only scanty grass on the hill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 grass	advmod
4	scanty	scanty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grass	amod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	scanty grass			the hill; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location

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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