asp

Who acts: asp, fox · What happens: be, find, step, slide, talk · To what, where: small poisonous snake, hot countries, path, story

«asp» 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: asp in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

An asp is a small, poisonous snake, found in hot countries and in old stories.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 asp	det
2	asp	asp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snake	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 snake	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snake	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snake	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct
7	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snake	amod
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 snake	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 countries	case
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 countries	amod
13	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 found	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stories	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 stories	case
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stories	amod
17	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 countries	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 snake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a asp	a small poisonous snake					tree rules
2	find	participle		a small poisonous snake not said here		hot countries and old stories			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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 fox nearly stepped on an asp.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepped	nsubj
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 stepped	advmod
4	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 asp	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 asp	det
7	asp	asp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepped	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stepped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	past	the fox					on a asp; nearly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on asp=Trajectory

Example 2

The asp slid quietly across the path.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 asp	det
2	asp	asp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slid	nsubj
3	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 slid	advmod
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 path	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 path	det
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slid	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	past	the asp			the path		quietly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across path=Trajectory

Example 3

In the story the asp was clever and could talk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 story	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clever	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 asp	det
5	asp	asp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clever	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clever	cop
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 talk	cc
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	aux
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 clever	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the asp			the story		clever property	tree rules
2	talk	could	the asp not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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