witty

Who acts: You, I, That, He · What happens: say, be, see · To what, where: clever funny things, witty answer · Speech: someone speaks here

«witty» 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: witty in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Able to say clever, funny things quickly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 say	mark
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Able	xcomp
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	obj
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Able	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		clever funny things				quickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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

You are witty, I see.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 witty	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 witty	cop
3	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 witty	parataxis
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 witty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					witty property	tree rules
2	see	present	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Example 2

That was a witty answer!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 answer	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a witty answer					tree rules

Example 3

He was clever, honest and witty.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clever	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 honest	punct
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clever	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 witty	cc
7	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clever	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	He	clever property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here		tree rules
3	be		He not said here		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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