besprinkle
Who acts: Sugar, Blood · What happens: scatter, besprinkle · To what, where: small drops, something, top, ice
«besprinkle» 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: besprinkle in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To scatter small drops or bits over something.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 scatter | mark |
| 2 | scatter | scatter | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drops | amod |
| 4 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scatter | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 bits | cc |
| 6 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drops | conj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 something | case |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 scatter | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scatter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | to-infinitive | small drops or bits | something | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme over something=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
Sugar besprinkled the top of the cake.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 besprinkled | nsubj |
| 2 | besprinkled | besprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 besprinkled | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cake | det |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 top | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 besprinkled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | besprinkle | participle | Sugar | the top of the cake | tree rules |
Example 2
Blood besprinkled the ice.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 besprinkled | nsubj |
| 2 | besprinkled | besprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ice | det |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 besprinkled | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 besprinkled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | besprinkle | participle | Blood | the ice | 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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