cinder
Who acts: fire, cat · What happens: leave, go out, burnt, sleep · To what, where: burnt coal, toast, house, warm cinders
«cinder» 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: cinder in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A small piece of burnt coal or wood that is left after a fire has gone out; grey ash.
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 piece | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 piece | amod |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 coal | case |
| 5 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coal | amod |
| 6 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | nmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 wood | cc |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coal | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 left | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux:pass |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 coal | acl:relcl |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 gone | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | aux |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 left | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 gone | compound:prt |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 ash | punct |
| 19 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ash | amod |
| 20 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 piece | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | burnt coal or wood | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go out | present · perfect | a fire | vn interact-36.6 «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.
Example 1
The toast was burnt to a cinder.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 toast | det |
| 2 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burnt | aux:pass |
| 4 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 cinder | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cinder | det |
| 7 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burnt | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burnt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | past · passive | the toast | to a cinder | tree rules |
Example 2
By morning the house had burnt to cinders.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 morning | case |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burnt | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 burnt | aux |
| 6 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 cinders | case |
| 8 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 burnt | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 burnt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | past · perfect · passive | the house | morning | to cinders | tree rules |
Example 3
The cat slept on the warm cinders by the fire.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 cinders | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cinders | det |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cinders | amod |
| 7 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slept | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slept | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the cat | the warm cinders | by the fire | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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