Who acts: They, Chlorinating, lifeguard, Engineers, treatment, Chlorinated water · What happens: add, kill, make, combine, chlorinate, drink · To what, where: chlorine, germs, substance, pool water, tap water, drinking water
«chlorinate» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 6 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: chlorinate in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To add chlorine to water to kill germs and make it safe for drinking or swimming.
The tree, 16 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chlorine=Patient
2
kill
to-infinitive
germs
vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
3
make
present
chlorine
safe property
vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
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
Usage: chemistry — kept apart, not parsed.
To combine a substance with chlorine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 combine
mark
2
combine
combine
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
4 substance
det
4
substance
substance
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 combine
obj
5
with
with
ADP
_
6 chlorine
case
6
chlorine
chlorine
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 substance
nmod
7
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 combine
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
combine
to-infinitive
a substance
with chlorine
vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent substance=Patient with chlorine=Co-Patient
vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2
work
present
the treatment
vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
Example 6
Chlorinated water can make your hair feel dry.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Chlorinated
chlorinate
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
2 water
amod
2
water
water
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 make
nsubj
3
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
4 make
aux
4
make
make
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
5
your
your
PRON
Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs
6 hair
nmod:poss
6
hair
hair
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 make
obj
7
feel
feel
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
4 make
xcomp
8
dry
dry
ADJ
Degree=Pos
7 feel
xcomp
9
.
.
PUNCT
_
4 make
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
chlorinate
participle
vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
2
make
can
Chlorinated water
your hair
tree rules
3
feel
infinitive
your hair not said here
dry property
vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
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.