shrewdly

Who acts: you, landlord, Odysseus, She · What happens: act, be, judge, go on, want, gain · To what, where: something, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

«shrewdly» 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: shrewdly in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To act shrewdly is to think quickly and clearly and judge well what is going on, especially when you want to gain something.

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 act	mark
2	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 think	advcl
3	shrewdly	shrewdly	ADV	_	2 act	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 think	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 think	mark
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 think	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 clearly	cc
9	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	7 quickly	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 judge	cc
11	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 think	conj
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 judge	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 going	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 judge	ccomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 going	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
18	especially	especially	ADV	_	21 want	advmod
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 want	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 want	nsubj
21	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 think	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 gain	mark
23	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 want	xcomp
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 gain	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	act	to-infinitive			shrewdly property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present			quickly, think property	tree rules
3	judge	infinitive			well property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go on	present · progressive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	want	present	you		especially property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	gain not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	something		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme

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 landlord said shrewdly what he thought.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	shrewdly	shrewdly	ADV	_	5 what	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 said	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the landlord						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	think speech: other	past	landlord						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

Odysseus shrewdly worked out who the stranger was.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 worked	nsubj
2	shrewdly	shrewdly	ADV	_	3 worked	advmod
3	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 worked	compound:prt
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 was	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stranger	det
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worked	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 worked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work out	past	Odysseus					shrewdly property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	past							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 3

She shrewdly guessed the answer.

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	3 guessed	nsubj
2	shrewdly	shrewdly	ADV	_	3 guessed	advmod
3	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guessed	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 guessed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	She	the answer				shrewdly property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme

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