scrupulous
Who acts: Scrupulous, judge, She, cook · What happens: mean, do, be, keep, record · To what, where: scrupulous records, penny
«scrupulous» 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: scrupulous in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Scrupulous means very careful to do what is right and fair.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scrupulous | Scrupulous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 careful | advmod |
| 4 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 careful | xcomp |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 right | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 right | cop |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fair | cc |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 right | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Scrupulous | careful property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Scrupulous not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | right property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | 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
Scrupulous means very careful and exact about small details.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scrupulous | Scrupulous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 careful | advmod |
| 4 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 exact | cc |
| 6 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 careful | conj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 details | case |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 details | amod |
| 9 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 exact | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Scrupulous | careful property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Example 1
The judge was scrupulous and fair.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 judge | det |
| 2 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scrupulous | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scrupulous | cop |
| 4 | scrupulous | scrupulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fair | cc |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 scrupulous | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scrupulous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the judge | scrupulous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the judge not said here | tree rules |
Example 2
She kept scrupulous records of every penny.
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 | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | scrupulous | scrupulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 records | amod |
| 4 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kept | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 penny | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 penny | det |
| 7 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 records | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | She | scrupulous records of every penny | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme | ||||
| 2 | record | every penny | nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Example 3
The cook was scrupulous about clean hands.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cook | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scrupulous | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scrupulous | cop |
| 4 | scrupulous | scrupulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 hands | case |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hands | amod |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scrupulous | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scrupulous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cook | about clean hands; scrupulous 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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