chaw

Who acts: He, old man, you · What happens: chaw, be, bite, grind, not chaw · To what, where: food, stalk, bread

«chaw» 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: chaw in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Usage: dialect, old use — kept apart, not parsed.

To chaw is to chew: to bite and grind food with the teeth.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 chaw	mark
2	chaw	chaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chew	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chew	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 chew	mark
5	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 bite	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bite	mark
8	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chew	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grind	cc
10	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bite	conj
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grind	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 teeth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 teeth	det
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grind	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chaw	to-infinitive			tree rules
2	is	present		chew property	tree rules
3	bite	to-infinitive			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	grind	infinitive	food	with the teeth	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent food=Patient with tooth=Instrument

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

He chaws on a stalk of grass.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chaws	nsubj
2	chaws	chaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stalk	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stalk	det
5	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chaws	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grass	case
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stalk	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chaws	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chaw	present	He			a stalk of grass			tree rules

Example 2

The old man chawed his bread slowly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chawed	nsubj
4	chawed	chaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bread	nmod:poss
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chawed	obj
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 chawed	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chawed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chaw	past	the old man	man's bread				slowly property	tree rules

Example 3

Don't chaw with your mouth open.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 chaw	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 chaw	advmod
3	chaw	chaw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 mouth	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouth	nmod:poss
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chaw	obl
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chaw	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chaw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not chaw	imperative · do-support	you not said here					with your mouth; open property	tree rules

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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