capacious
Who acts: Capacious, capacious bag, our, hall, thousand people, giant · What happens: mean, have, hold, shop, be, sit · To what, where: lot, great deal, shopping, hall, fowl
«capacious» 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: capacious in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Capacious means having a lot of room inside; able to hold a great deal.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capacious | Capacious | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 having | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lot | nmod |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 7 room | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hold | mark |
| 12 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hold | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Capacious | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | gerund | Capacious not said here | a lot of room | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | Capacious not said here | a great deal | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=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 capacious bag held all our shopping.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bag | det |
| 2 | capacious | capacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bag | amod |
| 3 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bag | acl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 shopping | det:predet |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shopping | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shopping | shopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bag | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | the capacious bag not said here | our shopping | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shopping=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shop | our | nom shopping «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Example 2
The hall was so capacious that a thousand people could sit in it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hall | det |
| 2 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 capacious | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 capacious | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 capacious | advmod |
| 5 | capacious | capacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 sit | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thousand | det |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 people | nummod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sit | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sit | aux |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 capacious | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sit | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 capacious | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hall | capacious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | could | thousand people | hall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
Example 3
The giant swallowed the fowl with his capacious mouth.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swallowed | nsubj |
| 3 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fowl | det |
| 5 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swallowed | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | capacious | capacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouth | amod |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fowl | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | the giant | the fowl | with giant's capacious mouth | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Patient |
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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