scruple

Who acts: scruple, feeling, you, it, He, scruples · What happens: be, stop, do, think, scruple, have · To what, where: feeling, you, something, scruples, long story, last cake · Speech: someone speaks here

«scruple» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: scruple in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A scruple is a feeling that stops you doing something because you think it may be wrong.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scruple	det
2	scruple	scruple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feeling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feeling	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feeling	det
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 stops	nsubj
7	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feeling	acl:relcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 stops	obj
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stops	xcomp
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 doing	obj
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 think	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stops	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wrong	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wrong	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 wrong	cop
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 think	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 feeling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a scruple	a feeling		tree rules
2	stop	present	a feeling	you		tree rules
3	do	gerund	a feeling not said here	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	present	you			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	may	scruple		wrong property	tree rules

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.

Meaning 2

To scruple is to hesitate to do something because you think it may be wrong.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scruple	mark
2	scruple	scruple	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hesitate	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hesitate	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hesitate	mark
5	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hesitate	xcomp
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 do	obj
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 think	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 think	nsubj
11	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wrong	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 wrong	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 wrong	cop
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 think	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hesitate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scruple	to-infinitive				tree rules
2	is	present			hesitate property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive		something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	present	you			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	may	it		wrong property	tree rules

Example 1

He had no scruples about lying.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 scruples	det
4	scruples	scruple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 lying	mark
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 scruples	acl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no scruples					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scruple=Patient
2	lie	gerund	no scruples not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

The man did not scruple to tell a long story.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scruple	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scruple	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 scruple	advmod
5	scruple	scruple	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scruple	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 scruple	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not scruple	past · do-support	the man						tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the man not said here	a long story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

Example 3

She did not scruple to take the last cake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scruple	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scruple	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 scruple	advmod
4	scruple	scruple	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scruple	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cake	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cake	amod
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 scruple	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not scruple	past · do-support	She						tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	She not said here	the last cake					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme

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