Who acts: purple flowers, buddleia, We, buddleia flowers · What happens: shape, attract, call, crowd, grow out, plant · To what, where: many butterflies, bush, Butterflies, buddleia, old wall, wild plants · Speech: someone speaks here
«buddleia» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 5 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: buddleia in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A bush with long, cone-shaped clusters of purple, white or pink flowers that attract many butterflies; also called the butterfly bush.
The tree, 22 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Patient
3
call
participle · passive
a bush with long shaped clusters of purple flowers
vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
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
Butterflies crowded on the buddleia.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Butterflies
butterfly
NOUN
Number=Plur
root
root
2
crowded
crowd
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
1 Butterflies
acl
3
on
on
ADP
_
5 buddleia
case
4
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
5 buddleia
det
5
buddleia
buddleia
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 crowded
obl
6
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Butterflies
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
crowd
participle
Butterflies not said here
the buddleia
vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on buddleia=Destination
vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of honey=Theme
Example 5
Buddleia can spread fast and push out wild plants.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Buddleia
buddleia
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 spread
nsubj
2
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
3 spread
aux
3
spread
spread
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
4
fast
fast
ADV
Degree=Pos
3 spread
advmod
5
and
and
CCONJ
_
6 push
cc
6
push
push
VERB
Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin
3 spread
conj
7
out
out
ADP
_
6 push
compound:prt
8
wild
wild
ADJ
Degree=Pos
9 plants
amod
9
plants
plant
NOUN
Number=Plur
6 push
obj
10
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 spread
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
spread
can
Buddleia
fast property
vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2
push out
present
Buddleia not said here
wild plants
vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
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.