blight
Who acts: damage, plants, blight, drought, Bad weather · What happens: spoil, not grow, ruin, destroy, leave, be · To what, where: plants, place, potato crop, fields, blight, village
«blight» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: blight in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A disease or damage that spoils plants or crops so they cannot grow well.
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 disease | det |
| 2 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 damage | cc |
| 4 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 disease | conj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 spoils | nsubj |
| 6 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 damage | acl:relcl |
| 7 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spoils | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 crops | cc |
| 9 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 plants | conj |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 14 grow | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grow | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 grow | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 grow | advmod |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 spoils | advcl |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 grow | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 disease | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | present | damage | plants or crops | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not grow | can | plants = plant | well 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.
Meaning 2
Something that spoils or ruins a place or a life.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 spoils | nsubj |
| 3 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Something | acl:relcl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 ruins | cc |
| 5 | ruins | ruin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoils | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ruins | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 life | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 life | det |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Something | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | present | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | ruin | present | a place or a life | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
Example 1
A blight destroyed the potato crop.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 blight | det |
| 2 | blight | blight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 destroyed | nsubj |
| 3 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crop | det |
| 5 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crop | compound |
| 6 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 destroyed | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 destroyed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past | a blight | the potato crop | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient |
Example 2
The drought and blight left the fields brown.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 drought | det |
| 2 | drought | drought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 blight | cc |
| 4 | blight | blight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drought | conj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fields | det |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 left | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the drought and blight | the fields | brown property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
Example 3
Bad weather can be a blight on a village.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 weather | amod |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blight | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 blight | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 blight | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 blight | det |
| 6 | blight | blight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blight | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blight | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | Bad weather | a blight | a village | 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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