bespatter
Who acts: car, He, trousers · What happens: splash, spot, bespatter, come · To what, where: someone, me
«bespatter» 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: bespatter in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To splash or spot someone or something with mud, water or dirt.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 splash | mark |
| 2 | splash | splash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 spot | cc |
| 4 | spot | spot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 splash | conj |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 spot | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 something | cc |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 someone | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mud | case |
| 9 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 something | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 water | punct |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mud | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 dirt | cc |
| 13 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mud | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 splash | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | splash | to-infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | spot | infinitive | someone | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme someone=Destination |
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 car bespattered me with mud.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bespattered | nsubj |
| 3 | bespattered | bespatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bespattered | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mud | case |
| 6 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bespattered | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bespattered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bespatter | past | the car | me | with mud | tree rules |
Example 2
He came home with his trousers bespattered.
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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 7 bespattered | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 trousers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bespattered | nsubj |
| 7 | bespattered | bespatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | advcl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | He | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bespatter | past | his trousers | tree rules |
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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