unfailing
Who acts: unfailing kindness, unfailing patience, She, her · What happens: not stop, run out, need, help, make, give · To what, where: us, good teacher, him, unfailing support
«unfailing» 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: unfailing in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Never stopping or running out; always there when needed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 stopping | advmod |
| 2 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 running | cc |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stopping | conj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 running | compound:prt |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 there | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 stopping | advmod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 needed | advmod |
| 10 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 there | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopping | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | gerund | there | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run out | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | need | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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
Grandma's unfailing kindness helped us all.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Grandma | case |
| 3 | unfailing | unfailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kindness | compound |
| 4 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 helped | nsubj |
| 5 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 helped | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 helped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | Grandma's unfailing kindness | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
Example 2
His unfailing patience made him a good teacher.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 patience | nmod:poss |
| 2 | unfailing | unfailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 patience | compound |
| 3 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 teacher | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 teacher | amod |
| 8 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | His unfailing patience | a good teacher | him = he | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary teacher=Product |
Example 3
She gave her unfailing support.
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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 support | nmod:poss |
| 4 | unfailing | unfailing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 support | amod |
| 5 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | She | her unfailing support | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Theme | ||||
| 2 | support | her = she | nom support «act transitive»: poss=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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