bricklayer

Who acts: bricklayer, worker, pitcher · What happens: be, build, live · To what, where: worker, walls, wall, garden, family, fountain

«bricklayer» 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: bricklayer in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A bricklayer is a worker who builds walls, houses and chimneys with bricks.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bricklayer	det
2	bricklayer	bricklayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worker	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worker	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 worker	det
5	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 builds	nsubj
7	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worker	acl:relcl
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 builds	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 houses	punct
10	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walls	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 chimneys	cc
12	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walls	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 bricks	case
14	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 builds	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worker	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a bricklayer	a worker					tree rules
2	build	present	a worker	walls and houses and chimneys				with bricks	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wall=Theme with brick=Source

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 bricklayer built a wall around the garden.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bricklayer	det
2	bricklayer	bricklayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obj
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 built	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the bricklayer	a wall		the garden			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product

Example 2

Not far from the fountain there lived a family of bricklayers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 lived	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 fountain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fountain	det
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lived	advmod
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 family	det
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 bricklayers	case
11	bricklayers	bricklayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 family	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a family of bricklayers		the fountain; there		far property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme family=Location

Example 3

"Where is your pitcher?" asked the bricklayer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	cop
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pitcher	nmod:poss
5	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Where	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bricklayer	det
10	bricklayer	bricklayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Where	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	your pitcher					where property	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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