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variance

Who acts: phrase, two brothers, words, His, man · What happens: be, not mean, word, act · To what, where: Variance difference, agreement, variance

«variance» 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: variance in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Variance is difference or disagreement. The phrase «at variance» means not in agreement with someone or something.

Sentence 1: Variance is difference or disagreement.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Variance	variance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 difference	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 difference	cop
3	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 disagreement	cc
5	disagreement	disagreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 difference	conj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 difference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Variance difference or disagreement					tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: The phrase «at variance» means not in agreement with someone or something.

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 variance	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 variance	case
5	variance	variance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 phrase	appos
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 variance	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 means	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 agreement	case
10	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 someone	case
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 agreement	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 something	cc
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 someone	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mean	present	the phrase	agreement				with someone	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agreement=Topic

Example 1

The two brothers were at variance over the gold.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brothers	nummod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 variance	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 variance	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 variance	case
6	variance	variance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 gold	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gold	det
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 variance	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 variance	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the two brothers			variance		over the gold	tree rules

Example 2

His words are at variance with his actions.

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 words	nmod:poss
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 variance	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 variance	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 variance	case
5	variance	variance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 actions	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 actions	nmod:poss
8	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 variance	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 variance	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	His words			variance		with his actions	tree rules
2	word		His = he						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
3	act		his = he						nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

The man was at variance with himself.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 variance	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 variance	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 variance	case
5	variance	variance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 variance	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 variance	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man			variance		with man	tree rules

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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