spitefully

Who acts: He, I, Big Toomai, Toomai · What happens: mean, hurt, annoy, say, not be, prod · To what, where: way, someone, elephant · Speech: someone speaks here

«spitefully» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: spitefully in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Spitefully means in a way that is meant to hurt or annoy someone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spitefully	spitefully	ADV	_	2 means	advmod
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 meant	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meant	aux:pass
8	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 way	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hurt	mark
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 meant	xcomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 annoy	cc
12	annoy	annoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hurt	conj
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 annoy	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present		in a way; spitefully property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in way=Attribute
2	mean	present · passive	a way		tree rules
3	hurt not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	annoy	infinitive	someone		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer

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

He said spitefully, «I am not afraid of you.»

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	spitefully	spitefully	ADV	_	2 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 afraid	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 afraid	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 afraid	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 afraid	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 afraid	advmod
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 afraid	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 afraid	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 afraid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He					spitefully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is in a quote	present	I					of you; afraid property	tree rules

Example 2

Big Toomai prodded the elephant spitefully, because he was angry.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Toomai	amod
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 prodded	nsubj
3	prodded	prod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 elephant	det
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prodded	obj
6	spitefully	spitefully	ADV	_	3 prodded	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 angry	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 angry	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 angry	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 angry	cop
11	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prodded	parataxis
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prodded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prod	past	Big Toomai	the elephant				spitefully property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Experiencer
2	is	past	Toomai					angry 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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