tenderness
Who acts: Tenderness, She, arm, He · What happens: be, mean, touch, feel, have, speak · To what, where: gentle love, soreness, great tenderness, tenderness, her · Speech: someone speaks here
«tenderness» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: tenderness in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Tenderness is gentle love and kindness, softness of feeling.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 love | cop |
| 3 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 love | amod |
| 4 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kindness | cc |
| 6 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 softness | punct |
| 8 | softness | softness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 feeling | case |
| 10 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 softness | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tenderness | gentle love and kindness and softness of feeling | tree rules |
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
Tenderness can mean soreness of the body when touched.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 mean | aux |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | soreness | soreness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mean | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 body | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 body | det |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soreness | nmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 touched | advmod |
| 9 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mean | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | Tenderness | soreness of the body | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soreness=Topic | ||||
| 2 | touch | participle | Tenderness not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Example 1
She felt great tenderness for her brothers.
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 | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tenderness | amod |
| 4 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 brothers | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 felt | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | She | great tenderness | for her brothers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tenderness=Location for brother=Theme |
Example 2
My arm has a tenderness after the fall.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 arm | nmod:poss |
| 2 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tenderness | det |
| 5 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 fall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fall | det |
| 8 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tenderness | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | My arm | a tenderness | after the fall | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tenderness=Patient |
Example 3
He spoke to her with tenderness.
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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 tenderness | case |
| 6 | tenderness | tenderness | 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 | her = she | with tenderness | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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