tearful
Who acts: Tearful, He, little girl, girl, tearful eyes · What happens: mean, cry, speak, be, lose, look out · To what, where: tearful voice, doll, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
«tearful» 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: tearful in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Tearful means crying, or close to tears, with wet eyes or a shaky voice.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tearful | tearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 close | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 close | cc |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tears | case |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 close | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eyes | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tears | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 voice | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | shaky | shaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tears | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Tearful | close property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 spoke in a tearful voice.
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 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 voice | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 5 | tearful | tearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voice | amod |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | He | a tearful voice | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Example 2
The little girl was tearful after she lost her doll.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tearful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tearful | cop |
| 5 | tearful | tearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 lost | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tearful | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 doll | nmod:poss |
| 10 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tearful | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the little girl | tearful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | girl | girl's doll | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Eventuality |
Example 3
Her tearful eyes looked out over the sea.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tearful | tearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eyes | amod |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | Her tearful eyes | the sea | out property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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