Who acts: plump brown bird, partridge, partridges, farmer, he, you · What happens: live, hunt, run, sing, hide, lay · To what, where: ground, plump brown bird, field, long grass, many eggs, flock
«partridge» in the English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 8 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: partridge in the English dictionary.
Everyday, meaning 1
A plump brown bird that lives on the ground in fields and is sometimes hunted for food.
The tree, 17 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location
2
hunt
present · passive
a plump brown bird not said here
for food; sometimes property
vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: for food=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 get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent partridge=Theme for sale=Beneficiary
Example 8
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.' (Prophets 1SA.26.20, JPS 1917)
Sentence 1: Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.'
The tree, 40 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme
3
come out
present · passive
you not said here
for the king of Israel; out property
vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»
4
seek
to-infinitive
you not said here
a single flea
vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flea=Theme
5
do
present
one
vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6
hunt
present
one not said here
a partridge
the mountains
vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent partridge=Theme in mountain=Location
Sentence 2: (Prophets 1SA.26.20, 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
1SA.26.20
1SA.26.20
NUM
NumForm=Digit NumType=Card
2 Prophets
flat
4
,
,
PUNCT
_
6 1917
punct
5
JPS
JPS
PROPN
Number=Sing
6 1917
nmod:unmarked
6
1917
1917
NUM
NumForm=Digit NumType=Card
3 1SA.26.20
conj
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.