chorister

Who acts: chorister · What happens: be, sing, choose, wear · To what, where: singer, church choir, church, He, chorister, white robe

«chorister» 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: chorister in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A chorister is a singer in a church choir, often a boy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chorister	det
2	chorister	chorister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 singer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 singer	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 singer	det
5	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 choir	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 choir	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choir	compound
9	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 singer	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boy	punct
11	often	often	ADV	_	13 boy	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 singer	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 singer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a chorister	a singer and a boy		a church choir			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

The chorister sang loudly in church.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chorister	det
2	chorister	chorister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 sang	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 church	case
6	church	church	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	the chorister			church		loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in church=Location

Example 2

He was chosen to be a chorister.

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	3 chosen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chosen	aux:pass
3	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 chorister	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 chorister	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chorister	det
7	chorister	chorister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chosen	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chosen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past · passive		He					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		a chorister					tree rules

Example 3

Every chorister wore a white robe.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 chorister	det
2	chorister	chorister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	nsubj
3	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 robe	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 robe	amod
6	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	every chorister	a white robe					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=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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