surety

Who acts: surety, person, you, Two sureties, sureties · What happens: be, pay, do, fail, make, say · To what, where: promise, something, Surety certainty, sureties · Speech: someone speaks here

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

Meaning 1

A surety is a promise to pay or do something if another person fails, or the person who makes such a promise.

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 surety	det
2	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promise	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 promise	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 promise	det
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pay	mark
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promise	acl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 do	cc
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pay	conj
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 do	obj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 fails	mark
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fails	nsubj
14	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 do	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 person	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 person	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 person	det
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promise	conj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 makes	nsubj
20	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 person	acl:relcl
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 promise	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 promise	det
23	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 makes	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a surety	a promise or the person	tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	do	infinitive		something	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	fail a condition, not said to happen	present	another person		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	present	the person	such promise	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product

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

Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

Surety is certainty, something you can be sure of.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 certainty	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 certainty	cop
3	certainty	certainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 something	punct
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 certainty	appos
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 sure	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sure	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	cop
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	acl:relcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 sure	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 certainty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Surety certainty					tree rules
2	is	can	you					sure property	tree rules

Example 1

Two sureties are better than one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sureties	nummod
2	sureties	surety	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 better	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Two sureties					than one; good property	tree rules

Example 2

«Who are the sureties?» said Fionn.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 sureties	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sureties	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sureties	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sureties	det
5	sureties	surety	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sureties	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 sureties	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the sureties					tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the sureties						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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