Who acts: Tardiness, school, teacher, Traffic, coach · What happens: be, arrive, mean, do, send, miss · To what, where: school, something, letter, start, lessons, whole team wait · Speech: someone speaks here
«tardiness» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 6 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: tardiness in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Usage: formal — kept apart, not parsed.
Tardiness is being late, especially arriving late to school, work or a meeting.
The tree, 13 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
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
Tardiness can mean being slow to do something.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Tardiness
tardiness
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 mean
nsubj
2
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
3 mean
aux
3
mean
mean
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
4
being
be
AUX
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
5 slow
cop
5
slow
slow
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 mean
conj
6
to
to
PART
_
7 do
mark
7
do
do
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
5 slow
xcomp
8
something
something
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
7 do
obj
9
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 mean
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
mean
can
Tardiness
vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2
is
gerund
Tardiness not said here
slow property
tree rules
3
do
to-infinitive
Tardiness not said here
something
vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tardiness=Theme
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.