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biannual

Who acts: We, dentist, school, magazine, two issues, garden club · What happens: happen, have, up, hold, be, meet · To what, where: biannual book, due next month

«biannual» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 5 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: biannual in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Happening twice a year.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Happening	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Happening	obl:unmarked
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Happening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	gerund					year	twice property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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

We have a biannual dentist check-up.

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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 up	det
4	biannual	biannual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 up	amod
5	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 up	nsubj
6	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 up	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	We						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	up		dentist						tree rules

Example 2

The school holds a biannual book fair, in spring and autumn.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 school	det
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	nsubj
3	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
5	biannual	biannual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 book	amod
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	obj
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 holds	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spring	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 spring	case
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 autumn	cc
12	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spring	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 holds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the school	a biannual book				fair property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

Example 3

The magazine is biannual, so there are two issues a year.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 magazine	det
2	magazine	magazine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 biannual	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 biannual	cop
4	biannual	biannual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 are	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 are	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 are	expl
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 biannual	conj
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 issues	nummod
10	issues	issue	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 are	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 issues	nmod:unmarked
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 biannual	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the magazine					biannual property	tree rules
2	does	present	two issues a year			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 4

The garden club meets biannually.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 club	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 club	compound
3	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meets	nsubj
4	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	biannually	biannually	ADV	_	4 meets	advmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 meets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	the garden club					biannually property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 5

Our biannual car service is due next month.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 service	nmod:poss
2	biannual	biannual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 service	amod
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 service	compound
4	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 month	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 month	cop
6	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 month	amod
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 month	amod
8	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 month	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Our biannual car service	due next month					tree rules
2	service		Our						nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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