artillery

Who acts: Artillery, soldiers, I, heavy artillery · What happens: mean, use, fire, hear, roar, stack · To what, where: big guns, war, guns, roar, cannons, artillery lines

«artillery» 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: artillery in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Artillery means big guns and cannons used in war, and also the soldiers who fire them.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Artillery	artillery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guns	amod
4	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cannons	cc
6	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guns	conj
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 guns	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 war	case
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 used	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 soldiers	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 soldiers	cc
12	also	also	ADV	_	14 soldiers	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 soldiers	det
14	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guns	conj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 fire	nsubj
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 soldiers	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fire	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	Artillery	big guns and cannons and the soldiers and fire		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Topic
2	use	participle		big guns and cannons and the soldiers and fire not said here	war	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fire		the soldiers and fire	guns = gun		tree rules

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 artillery fired all night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 artillery	det
2	artillery	artillery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fired	nsubj
3	fired	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fired	obl:unmarked
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fired	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fire	past	the artillery				night		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Example 2

I heard the roar of heavy artillery.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roar	det
4	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 artillery	case
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 artillery	amod
7	artillery	artillery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roar	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	the roar of heavy artillery					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer roar=Stimulus
2	roar		heavy artillery						nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent

Example 3

The cannons were stacked near the artillery lines.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cannons	det
2	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stacked	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stacked	aux:pass
4	stacked	stack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	8 lines	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lines	det
7	artillery	artillery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lines	compound
8	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stacked	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stacked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stack	past · passive		the cannons		the artillery lines			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme near line=Destination

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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