unkempt

Who acts: Unkempt, hair, old man, garden · What happens: mean, not care, be, have, look · To what, where: unkempt beard

«unkempt» 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: unkempt in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Unkempt means messy or untidy, not neatly cared for, especially of hair, beards or clothes.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unkempt	unkempt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 untidy	cc
5	untidy	untidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 messy	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cared	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 cared	advmod
8	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	9 cared	advmod
9	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 hair	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hair	punct
12	especially	especially	ADV	_	14 hair	advmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 hair	case
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beards	punct
16	beards	beard	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hair	conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 clothes	cc
18	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	14 hair	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Unkempt					messy property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	not care	participle						for hair and beards or clothes; neatly property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for hair=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

His hair was unkempt after the storm.

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	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unkempt	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unkempt	cop
4	unkempt	unkempt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 storm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 storm	det
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unkempt	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unkempt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His hair				after the storm	unkempt property	tree rules

Example 2

The old man had an unkempt beard down to his belt.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 beard	det
6	unkempt	unkempt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beard	amod
7	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	down	down	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 belt	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 belt	nmod:poss
11	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 down	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old man	a unkempt beard				down property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient

Example 3

The garden looked unkempt and overgrown.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 garden	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unkempt	unkempt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 overgrown	cc
6	overgrown	overgrown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 unkempt	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the garden					unkempt property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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