vagueness

Who acts: Vagueness, you, map, answer, Her, tale · What happens: not be, be, not tell, lose, have, help · To what, where: details, we, much vagueness, us · Speech: someone speaks here

«vagueness» 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: vagueness in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Vagueness is when something is not clear or exact, so you cannot tell the details.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vagueness	vagueness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clear	nsubj:outer
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 clear	cop
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 clear	advmod
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 clear	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 clear	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 clear	advmod
7	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 exact	cc
9	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clear	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 tell	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 tell	advmod
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 clear	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 details	det
17	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tell	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 clear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Vagueness		clear property	tree rules
2	be		Vagueness not said here			tree rules
3	not tell speech: assert	can	you	the details		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent detail=Recipient

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 map was so vague that we got lost.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 map	det
2	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vague	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vague	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 vague	advmod
5	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lost	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux:pass
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 vague	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 vague	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the map					vague property	tree rules
2	lose	past · passive		we					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Example 2

Her answer had too much vagueness to help us.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 answer	nmod:poss
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vagueness	amod
6	vagueness	vagueness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	advcl
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 help	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	past	Her answer	much vagueness		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vagueness=Patient
2	help	to-infinitive	Her answer not said here		us	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary
3	answer		Her = she			nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

The tale is full of vagueness about where the castle stands.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 vagueness	case
6	vagueness	vagueness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 stands	mark
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 stands	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stands	nsubj
11	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tale					of vagueness; full property	tree rules
2	stand	present	the castle						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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