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asparagus

Who acts: plant, We, Asparagus spears, Grandad, asparagus season, I · What happens: eat, cook, grow, have, grow up, be · To what, where: pointed tips, asparagus, garden, asparagus soup, school

«asparagus» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 6 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: asparagus in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A vegetable with long green, white or purple stalks with pointed tips, eaten cooked.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 vegetable	det
2	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	10 stalks	case
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stalks	amod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stalks	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 white	punct
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 green	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 purple	cc
9	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 green	conj
10	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 vegetable	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 tips	case
12	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tips	amod
13	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stalks	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eaten	punct
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 tips	acl
16	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 eaten	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 vegetable	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	participle		pointed tips not said here					tree rules
2	cook	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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.

Meaning 2

The plant it grows from.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plant	det
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	4 grows	case
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the plant						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 1

We had asparagus with our dinner.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asparagus	asparagus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dinner	nmod:poss
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asparagus	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	We	asparagus				with our dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asparagus=Patient

Example 2

Asparagus spears grow up from the soil.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asparagus	asparagus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spears	compound
2	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 grow	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 soil	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soil	det
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	present	Asparagus spears					from the soil	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from soil=Patient

Example 3

Grandad grows asparagus in his garden.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asparagus	asparagus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 garden	nmod:poss
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Grandad	asparagus		Grandad's garden			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asparagus=Theme

Example 4

The asparagus season is in late spring.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 season	det
2	asparagus	asparagus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 season	compound
3	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spring	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spring	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spring	amod
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the asparagus season				in late spring		tree rules

Example 5

I tried asparagus soup at school.

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asparagus	asparagus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soup	compound
4	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tried	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tried	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	I	asparagus soup		school			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Eventuality

Example 6

Snap off the woody ends of the asparagus.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snap	Snap	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ends	nsubj
2	off	off	ADP	_	5 ends	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ends	det
4	woody	woody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ends	amod
5	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 asparagus	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 asparagus	det
8	asparagus	asparagus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ends	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ends	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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