awl

Who acts: awl, He, Mother badger · What happens: point, be, use, make, sew, take · To what, where: small sharp pointed tool, holes, leather, awl, buckskin

«awl» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: awl in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

An awl is a small, sharp, pointed tool used to make holes in leather, wood or cloth, for example when sewing.

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 awl	det
2	awl	awl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tool	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tool	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tool	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tool	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tool	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sharp	punct
9	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tool	amod
10	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tool	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	advcl
14	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 leather	case
16	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wood	punct
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leather	conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 cloth	cc
20	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leather	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 example	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 example	case
23	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 used	obl
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 sewing	mark
25	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 used	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	point	participle					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a awl	a small sharp pointed tool			tree rules
3	use	participle		a small sharp pointed tool not said here		for example	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	to-infinitive		holes	leather and wood or cloth		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
5	sew	gerund					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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.

Example 1

He took an awl and heated it red-hot.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 awl	det
4	awl	awl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 heated	cc
6	heated	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heated	obj
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hot	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 red	punct
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heated	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	He	a awl					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent awl=Theme
2	heat	past	He not said here	awl					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Example 2

Mother badger pierced the buckskin with her sharp awl.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 badger	compound
2	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pierced	nsubj
3	pierced	pierce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 buckskin	det
5	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pierced	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 awl	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 awl	nmod:poss
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 awl	amod
9	awl	awl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buckskin	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pierced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pierce	past	Mother badger	the buckskin				with badger's sharp awl	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent buckskin=Patient with awl=Instrument

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