chaffinch

Who acts: chaffinch, you · What happens: be, haste away, catch, sing · To what, where: small songbird, Wing, hedge

«chaffinch» 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: chaffinch in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A chaffinch is a small songbird with a bright, colourful breast, common in Britain and Europe.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chaffinch	det
2	chaffinch	chaffinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 songbird	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 songbird	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 songbird	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 songbird	amod
6	songbird	songbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	12 breast	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 breast	det
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 breast	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bright	punct
11	colourful	colourful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 breast	amod
12	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 songbird	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 common	punct
14	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 songbird	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Britain	case
16	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 common	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Europe	cc
18	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Britain	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 songbird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a chaffinch	a small songbird				with a bright colourful breast	tree rules

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

Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, haste away!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thrush	punct
3	thrush	thrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blackbird	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gay	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gay	cc
6	chaffinch	chaffinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gay	compound
7	gay	gay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blackbird	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 haste	punct
9	haste	haste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Blackbird	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 haste	advmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Blackbird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haste away	infinitive						away property	tree rules

Example 2

Catch the Chaffinch-on-the-Wing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wing	det
3	Chaffinch	Chaffinch	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Wing	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Wing	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 Wing	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 on	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wing	det
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 the	punct
9	Wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Catch	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	the Wing					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme

Example 3

A chaffinch sang in the hedge.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chaffinch	det
2	chaffinch	chaffinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hedge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hedge	det
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	a chaffinch			the hedge			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hedge=Location

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