unwieldy

Who acts: unwieldy parcel, beast, huge box · What happens: move, slip down, be, jump out, carry · To what, where: stairs

«unwieldy» 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: unwieldy in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Too big, heavy or awkward to move easily.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 big	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heavy	punct
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 big	conj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 awkward	cc
6	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 big	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 move	mark
8	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 awkward	xcomp
9	easily	easily	ADV	_	8 move	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 big	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	to-infinitive						easily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: 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 unwieldy parcel slipped down the stairs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parcel	det
2	unwieldy	unwieldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parcel	amod
3	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 stairs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stairs	det
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slipped	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slipped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip down	past	the unwieldy parcel	the stairs					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stair=Patient

Example 2

The beast was too heavy and unwieldy to jump out.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beast	det
2	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 unwieldy	cc
7	unwieldy	unwieldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heavy	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 jump	mark
9	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 unwieldy	xcomp
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 jump	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the beast	heavy property	tree rules
2	be		the beast not said here		tree rules
3	jump out	to-infinitive	the beast not said here	out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 3

The huge box was unwieldy to carry.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unwieldy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unwieldy	cop
5	unwieldy	unwieldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 carry	mark
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unwieldy	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 unwieldy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the huge box					unwieldy property	tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive	the huge box not said here						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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