byre

Who acts: you, son · What happens: keep, milk, clean out, sleep · To what, where: cows, byre

«byre» 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: byre in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Old use: a cowshed, a farm building where cows are kept.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 use	amod
2	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 cowshed	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cowshed	det
5	cowshed	cowshed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 building	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 building	det
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 building	compound
9	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cowshed	appos
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 kept	advmod
11	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kept	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	aux:pass
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 building	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		cows					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

The cows were milked in the byre.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cows	det
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 milked	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 milked	aux:pass
4	milked	milk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 byre	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 byre	det
7	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 milked	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 milked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	milk	past · passive		the cows		the byre			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Example 2

Clean out the byre before the storm.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Clean	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 byre	det
4	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clean	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 storm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 storm	det
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clean	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Clean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean out	imperative	you not said here	the byre			before the storm		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent byre=Patient

Example 3

The king's son slept in the byre.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	nsubj
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 byre	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 byre	det
8	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the king's son			the byre			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in byre=Location

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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