Who acts: Tom, teacher, She, I, he, you · What happens: say, think, keep, blurt out, finish, break · To what, where: something, you, answer, secret, it, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
«blurt» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 7 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: blurt in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To say something suddenly, without thinking first, often something you should have kept secret.
The tree, 14 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 say
mark
2
say
say
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
something
something
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
2 say
obj
4
suddenly
suddenly
ADV
_
2 say
advmod
5
,
,
PUNCT
_
7 thinking
punct
6
without
without
SCONJ
_
7 thinking
mark
7
thinking
think
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
2 say
ccomp
8
first
first
ADV
NumForm=Word NumType=Ord
7 thinking
advmod
9
,
,
PUNCT
_
11 something
punct
10
often
often
ADV
_
11 something
advmod
11
something
something
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
7 thinking
obl
12
you
you
PRON
Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs
15 kept
nsubj:pass
13
should
should
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
15 kept
aux
14
have
have
AUX
VerbForm=Inf
15 kept
aux
15
kept
keep
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
11 something
acl:relcl
16
secret
secret
ADJ
Degree=Pos
15 kept
xcomp
17
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 say
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
sayspeech: assert
to-infinitive
something
suddenly property
tree rules
2
thinkspeech: other
gerund
something
first property
vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3
keep
should · perfect · passive
you
secret property
vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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
Tom blurted out the answer before the teacher finished.
vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ending=Topic
2
end
the film
nom ending «communication transitive»: of=patient
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.