thieving

Who acts: things, thieving crows, thieving fox, you · What happens: steal, belong, thieve, take, do, not be · To what, where: things, corn, hen, thieving magpie

«thieving» 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: thieving in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Stealing things that belong to other people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stealing	obj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 belong	nsubj
4	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 things	acl:relcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 belong	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stealing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		things					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme
2	belong	present	things					to other people	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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

The thieving crows took the corn.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crows	det
2	thieving	thieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 crows	amod
3	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 corn	det
6	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thieve	gerund							vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	the thieving crows	the corn					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme

Example 2

The thieving fox stole a hen.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
2	thieving	thieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 fox	amod
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	nsubj
4	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hen	det
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stole	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thieve	gerund							vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	steal	past	the thieving fox	a hen					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hen=Theme

Example 3

Don't be a thieving magpie!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 magpie	advmod
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 magpie	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 magpie	det
5	thieving	thieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 magpie	amod
6	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	thieve	gerund			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	infinitive		a thieving magpie	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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