cavalry

Who acts: Cavalry soldiers, cavalry · What happens: be, fight, ride, prance, have, move · To what, where: Cavalry soldiers, hill, cavalry, armour

«cavalry» 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: cavalry in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Cavalry are soldiers who fight on horses.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soldiers	compound
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 soldiers	cop
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 fight	nsubj
5	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 soldiers	acl:relcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 horses	case
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fight	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 soldiers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Cavalry soldiers					tree rules
2	fight	present	Cavalry soldiers					on horses	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 cavalry rode over the hill at dawn.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cavalry	det
2	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 hill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 dawn	case
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the cavalry			the hill	dawn		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hill=Trajectory

Example 2

The king's cavalry pranced in armour.

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 cavalry	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	pranced	prance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cavalry	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 armour	case
7	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pranced	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cavalry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prance	participle		the king's cavalry not said here		armour			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in armour=Trajectory

Example 3

The cavalry had little time to move aside.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cavalry	det
2	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 move	mark
7	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	aside	aside	ADV	_	7 move	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the cavalry				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	move	to-infinitive	the cavalry not said here					aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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.

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