Who acts: light, Firefighters, you, fire blanket, bad news, news · What happens: extinguish, be, stop, burn, shine, end · To what, where: fire, something, blaze, candles, small pan fire, water
«extinguish» in the English dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 7 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: extinguish in the English dictionary.
Everyday, meaning 1
To extinguish a fire or light is to put it out so it stops burning or shining.
The tree, 17 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
2
is
present
light obj; put property
tree rules
3
stop
present
light
vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4
burn
gerund
light not said here
vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5
shine
gerund
light not said here
vn light_emission-43.1 «NP 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.
vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
2
hope
news
nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
Example 6
Smokers must extinguish cigarettes here.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Smokers
smoker
NOUN
Number=Plur
3 extinguish
nsubj
2
must
must
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
3 extinguish
aux
3
extinguish
extinguish
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
4
cigarettes
cigarette
NOUN
Number=Plur
3 extinguish
obj
5
here
here
ADV
PronType=Dem
3 extinguish
advmod
6
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 extinguish
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
extinguish
must
Smokers
cigarettes
here
vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cigarette=Patient
Example 7
And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof black; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. (Prophets EZK.32.7, JPS 1917)
Sentence 1: And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof black; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
The tree, 33 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
2
cover
future
I
the heaven
vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent heaven=Destination
3
make
infinitive
I not said here
the stars
black property
vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset star=Product
4
cover
future
I
the sun
with a cloud
vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sun=Destination with cloud=Theme
5
notgive
shall
the moon
moon's light
vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
6
light
moon
nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent
Sentence 2: (Prophets EZK.32.7, JPS 1917)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
(
(
PUNCT
_
2 Prophets
punct
2
Prophets
prophet
NOUN
Number=Plur
root
root
3
EZK.32.7
EZK.32.7
PROPN
Number=Sing
2 Prophets
appos
4
,
,
PUNCT
_
5 JPS
punct
5
JPS
JPS
PROPN
Number=Sing
3 EZK.32.7
flat
6
1917
1917
NUM
NumForm=Digit NumType=Card
3 EZK.32.7
flat
7
)
)
PUNCT
_
2 Prophets
punct
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the English dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. Trees: Mova's own parse; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader, each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.