breastplate

Who acts: breastplate, knight, Heracles, old troop horse · What happens: be, wear, protect, polish, shine, go · To what, where: piece, metal armour, chest, fighter, battle, breastplate

«breastplate» 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: breastplate in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A breastplate is a piece of metal armour worn over the chest to protect a fighter in battle.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 breastplate	det
2	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piece	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 piece	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 piece	det
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 armour	case
7	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 armour	compound
8	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piece	nmod
9	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 armour	acl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 chest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chest	det
12	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 worn	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 protect	mark
14	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 worn	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fighter	det
16	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 protect	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 battle	case
18	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 protect	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 piece	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a breastplate	a piece		of metal armour	tree rules
2	wear	participle		metal armour not said here	the chest		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	protect	to-infinitive		a fighter	battle		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fighter=Beneficiary

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

The knight polished his breastplate until it shone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 polished	nsubj
3	polished	polish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 breastplate	nmod:poss
5	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 polished	obj
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 shone	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shone	nsubj
8	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 polished	advcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 polished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	past	the knight	knight's breastplate					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent breastplate=Destination
2	shine	past	breastplate						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

Protected by his breastplate and lion's skin, Heracles went after the monster.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 breastplate	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 breastplate	nmod:poss
4	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Protected	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 skin	cc
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 lion	case
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breastplate	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Protected	conj
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 monster	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monster	det
14	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Protected	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	participle						by his breastplate and lion's skin	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	Heracles				after the monster		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 3

The old troop-horse grumbled about his crupper and breastplate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
3	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 troop	punct
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grumbled	nsubj
6	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 crupper	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 crupper	nmod:poss
9	crupper	crupper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grumbled	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 breastplate	cc
11	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crupper	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grumbled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	past	the old troop horse					about horse's crupper and breastplate	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about crupper=Topic

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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