scraggy

Who acts: Scraggy, old hen, scraggy dog, scraggy neck · What happens: mean, have, be, stick out · To what, where: scraggy legs, collar

«scraggy» 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: scraggy in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Scraggy means thin and bony, with little flesh on it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scraggy	Scraggy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bony	cc
5	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thin	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flesh	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 flesh	case
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flesh	amod
9	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flesh	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Scraggy					thin property	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 old hen had scraggy legs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hen	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hen	amod
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	scraggy	scraggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legs	amod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old hen	scraggy legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Example 2

The scraggy dog was very hungry.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the scraggy dog					hungry property	tree rules

Example 3

His scraggy neck stuck out of his collar.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 neck	nmod:poss
2	scraggy	scraggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 neck	amod
3	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 collar	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 collar	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 collar	nmod:poss
8	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	participle	His scraggy neck	neck's collar					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent collar=Theme

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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