weakling

Who acts: weakling, you, bully · What happens: be, beat, look down, use, call, give up · To what, where: person, him, first hill · Speech: someone speaks here

«weakling» 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: weakling in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A weakling is a person or animal with little strength, who is easily beaten or looked down on.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 weakling	det
2	weakling	weakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 animal	cc
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 strength	case
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 strength	amod
10	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beaten	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 beaten	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 beaten	aux:pass
14	easily	easily	ADV	_	15 beaten	advmod
15	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 person	parataxis
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
17	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 beaten	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 looked	compound:prt
19	on	on	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a weakling	a person or animal	with little strength	tree rules
2	beat	present · passive		a person or animal	easily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	look down	participle				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Of what use can you be, weaklings as you are!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 be	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 what	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 weaklings	punct
8	weaklings	weakling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 what	conj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 are	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 are	nsubj
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 weaklings	advcl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is	infinitive		tree rules
2	use	present		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	does	present	you	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

The bully called him a weakling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bully	det
2	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 weakling	det
6	weakling	weakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the bully		him = he				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Example 3

Only a weakling gives up at the first hill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 gives	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 weakling	det
3	weakling	weakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gives	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hill	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 hill	amod
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	present	a weakling			the first hill			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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