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cigarette

Who acts: cigarette, that, Cigarettes, Smoking cigarettes, It, Cigarette smoke · What happens: be, fill, dry, light, damage, sell · To what, where: thin paper tube, lungs, cigarettes, children, cough, cigarette end

«cigarette» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 7 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: cigarette in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A cigarette is a thin paper tube filled with dried tobacco that people light and smoke.

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 cigarette	det
2	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tube	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tube	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tube	det
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tube	amod
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tube	compound
7	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tube	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 tobacco	case
10	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tobacco	amod
11	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 filled	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 light	nsubj
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 light	compound
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tobacco	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smoke	cc
16	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 light	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tube	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a cigarette	a thin paper tube					tree rules
2	fill	participle		a thin paper tube not said here				with dried tobacco and people light and smoke	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tobacco=Instrument
3	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	light		that						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

Cigarettes are very bad for your health.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cigarettes	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bad	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 bad	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 health	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 health	nmod:poss
7	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bad	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cigarettes					for your health; bad property	tree rules

Example 2

Smoking cigarettes damages your lungs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cigarettes	compound
2	cigarettes	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 damages	nsubj
3	damages	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lungs	nmod:poss
5	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 damages	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 damages	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	present	Smoking cigarettes	your lungs					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lung=Patient

Example 3

It is against the law to sell cigarettes to children.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 law	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 law	cop
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sell	mark
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 law	acl
8	cigarettes	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sell	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sell	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 law	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					against the law	tree rules
2	sell	to-infinitive		cigarettes	children				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cigarette=Theme to child=Recipient

Example 4

Cigarette smoke made her cough.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smoke	compound
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cough	nmod:poss
5	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Cigarette smoke	smoke's cough					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cough=Product
2	cough		smoke						nom cough «state transitive»: poss=agent

Example 5

Grandad gave up cigarettes years ago.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	cigarettes	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 years	compound
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ago	obl:unmarked
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	Grandad					ago property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 6

A cigarette end was left on the beach.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 end	det
2	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	compound
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 beach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beach	det
8	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		a cigarette end		the beach			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on beach=Location

Example 7

Cigarettes can cause fires.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cigarettes	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cause	aux
3	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	can	Cigarettes	fires					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient

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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