brandy

Who acts: Brandy, fruit, glass, He · What happens: be, make, not be, warm, pour · To what, where: strong alcoholic drink, wine, him, little brandy, cup

«brandy» in the school dictionary: its meaning 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: brandy in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Brandy is a strong alcoholic drink made from wine or fruit; it is not for children.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brandy	Brandy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 drink	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 drink	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 drink	det
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drink	amod
5	alcoholic	alcoholic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drink	amod
6	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 drink	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 wine	case
9	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 fruit	cc
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wine	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 children	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 children	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 children	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 children	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 children	case
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drink	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Brandy	a strong alcoholic drink and children			tree rules
2	make	participle		a strong alcoholic drink and children not said here	wine or fruit		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from wine=Material
3	not is	present	fruit			for children	tree rules

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

A glass of brandy warmed him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warmed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 brandy	case
4	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	nmod
5	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warmed	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 warmed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	past	a glass of brandy	him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Example 2

Brandy is far too strong for children.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brandy	Brandy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 strong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 strong	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 strong	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 strong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Brandy					for children; far, strong property	tree rules

Example 3

He poured a little brandy into the cup.

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 poured	nsubj
2	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brandy	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brandy	amod
5	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poured	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 cup	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cup	det
8	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poured	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 poured	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	past	He	a little brandy		the cup			vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent brandy=Theme into cup=Destination

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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