cherub

Who acts: cherub, sweet, painting, baby cousin · What happens: be, show, mean, cheek, peep out · To what, where: kind, young child, cherub, cloud, Little cherubs, chubby cherub · Speech: someone speaks here

«cherub» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: cherub in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A cherub is a kind of angel, often shown as a chubby child with small wings.

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 cherub	det
2	cherub	cherub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 angel	case
7	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shown	punct
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 shown	advmod
10	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 kind	acl
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 child	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
13	chubby	chubby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 child	amod
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shown	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 wings	case
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wings	amod
17	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 child	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a cherub	a kind				of angel	tree rules
2	show	participle		a kind not said here				as a chubby child with small wings; often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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.

Meaning 2

A cherub can also mean a sweet, rosy-cheeked young child.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cherub	det
2	cherub	cherub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cheeked	det
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cheeked	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rosy	punct
9	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sweet	conj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 rosy	punct
11	cheeked	cheek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	ccomp
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 child	amod
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cheeked	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	can	a cherub						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cheek	past	sweet	young child					tree rules

Example 1

The painting shows a cherub on a cloud.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 painting	det
2	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cherub	det
5	cherub	cherub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 cloud	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cloud	det
8	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	the painting		a cherub	a cloud			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cherub=Recipient

Example 2

Little cherubs peeped out from the clouds.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cherubs	amod
2	cherubs	cherub	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cherubs	acl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 peeped	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 clouds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clouds	det
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 peeped	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cherubs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peep out	participle		Little cherubs not said here				from the clouds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from cloud=Theme

Example 3

My baby cousin is a chubby cherub.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	compound
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cherub	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cherub	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cherub	det
6	chubby	chubby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cherub	amod
7	cherub	cherub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cherub	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	My baby cousin	a chubby cherub					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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