anchovy

Who acts: anchovy, cook, Anchovies · What happens: be, sell, use, fry, taste · To what, where: small thin salty fish, tins, pizza, mullets, one fish

«anchovy» 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: anchovy in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

An anchovy is a small, thin, salty fish, often sold in tins or used on pizza.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 anchovy	det
2	anchovy	anchovy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fish	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fish	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fish	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fish	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fish	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thin	punct
9	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fish	amod
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sold	punct
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 sold	advmod
13	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fish	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 tins	case
15	tins	tin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sold	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 used	cc
17	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sold	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 pizza	case
19	pizza	pizza	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 used	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a anchovy	a small thin salty fish			tree rules
2	sell	participle	a anchovy not said here		tins	often property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	use	participle	a anchovy not said here		pizza		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The cook fried the mullets and the anchovies in hot oil.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fried	nsubj
3	fried	fry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mullets	det
5	mullets	mullet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fried	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 anchovies	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 anchovies	det
8	anchovies	anchovy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mullets	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 oil	case
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 oil	amod
11	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mullets	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fry	past	the cook	the mullets and the anchovies				in hot oil	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mullet=Patient in oil=Instrument

Example 2

Anchovies taste very salty on a pizza.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anchovies	anchovy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taste	nsubj
2	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 salty	advmod
4	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 taste	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 pizza	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pizza	det
7	pizza	pizza	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taste	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 taste	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	Anchovies			a pizza		salty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Example 3

Each anchovy in the tin is one fish.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 anchovy	det
2	anchovy	anchovy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fish	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 tin	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tin	det
5	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 anchovy	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fish	cop
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fish	nummod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	each anchovy in the tin	one fish					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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