barberry

Who acts: barberry, small yellow flowers, hedge, Red barberries, sheep · What happens: be, taste, grow, avoid · To what, where: prickly bush, path, prickly barberry

«barberry» 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: barberry in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A barberry is a prickly bush with small yellow flowers and red berries that taste sour, often grown as a hedge.

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 barberry	det
2	barberry	barberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bush	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bush	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bush	det
5	prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bush	amod
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 flowers	case
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flowers	amod
9	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flowers	amod
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bush	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 berries	cc
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 berries	amod
13	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flowers	conj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 taste	nsubj
15	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flowers	acl:relcl
16	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 taste	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grown	punct
18	often	often	ADV	_	19 grown	advmod
19	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bush	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 hedge	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hedge	det
22	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grown	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a barberry	a prickly bush	with small yellow flowers and red berries	tree rules
2	taste	present	small yellow flowers and red berries		sour property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	grow	participle	a barberry not said here		as a hedge; often property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 hedge was full of barberry bushes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hedge	det
2	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bushes	case
6	barberry	barberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bushes	compound
7	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hedge					of barberry bushes; full property	tree rules

Example 2

Red barberries grew along the path.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 barberries	amod
2	barberries	barberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 path	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Red barberries			the path			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Location

Example 3

The sheep avoided the prickly barberry.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 avoided	nsubj
3	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 barberry	det
5	prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 barberry	amod
6	barberry	barberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 avoided	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 avoided	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	past	the sheep	the prickly barberry					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent barberry=Location

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