untoward
Who acts: Nothing, untoward storm · What happens: not want, cause, happen, delay, grieve · To what, where: trouble, journey, ship, hero, untoward event
«untoward» 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: untoward in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Unexpected and unlucky; not wanted and causing trouble.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 unlucky | cc |
| 3 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Unexpected | conj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 wanted | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wanted | advmod |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Unexpected | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 causing | cc |
| 8 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 wanted | conj |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 causing | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unexpected | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | cause | gerund | trouble | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient |
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
Nothing untoward happened on the journey.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | untoward | untoward | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 journey | det |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Nothing | the journey | untoward property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location |
Example 2
An untoward storm delayed the ship.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 2 | untoward | untoward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 storm | amod |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delayed | nsubj |
| 4 | delayed | delay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delayed | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delayed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delay | past | a untoward storm | the ship | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent ship=Source |
Example 3
The hero grieved at the untoward event.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hero | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 event | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 event | det |
| 6 | untoward | untoward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 event | amod |
| 7 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grieved | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hero | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | participle | the hero not said here | the untoward event | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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