Who acts: land, We, Coastal erosion, coastal path, Many, you · What happens: meet, do, stay, wear away, run, be · To what, where: sea, coast, coastal erosion, little coastal town, cliffs, cliff top
«coastal» 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: coastal in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
On or near the coast, where land meets the sea: a coastal town.
The tree, 13 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Co-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
To do with the coast: coastal erosion, coastal waters.
vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before walk=Location
Example 6
Coastal areas can flood in storms.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Coastal
coastal
ADJ
Degree=Pos
2 areas
amod
2
areas
area
NOUN
Number=Plur
4 flood
nsubj
3
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
4 flood
aux
4
flood
flood
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
5
in
in
ADP
_
6 storms
case
6
storms
storm
NOUN
Number=Plur
4 flood
obl
7
.
.
PUNCT
_
4 flood
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
flood
can
Coastal areas
storms
vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.