cobble
Who acts: He, I, We · What happens: cobble, be · To what, where: odd pieces, old shoes, story, three books, tent, sticks
«cobble» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: cobble in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To cobble is to mend old shoes, especially by hand.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 cobble | mark |
| 2 | cobble | cobble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mend | csubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mend | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 mend | mark |
| 5 | mend | mend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shoes | amod |
| 7 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mend | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hand | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 11 hand | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mend | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mend | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cobble | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | by hand; mend property | 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.
Meaning 2
To cobble is to put something together roughly, from odd pieces.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 cobble | mark |
| 2 | cobble | cobble | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 8 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pieces | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 11 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pieces | amod |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cobble | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | odd pieces | put, roughly, together property | tree rules |
Example 1
He cobbles old shoes for the village.
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 | 2 cobbles | nsubj |
| 2 | cobbles | cobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shoes | amod |
| 4 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cobbles | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cobbles | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cobbles | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cobble | present | He | old shoes | for the village | tree rules |
Example 2
I cobbled this story together from three books.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 cobbled | nsubj |
| 2 | cobbled | cobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cobbled | obj |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 cobbled | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 books | case |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 books | nummod |
| 8 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cobbled | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cobbled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cobble | past | I | this story | three books | together property | tree rules |
Example 3
We cobbled a tent from sticks and sheets.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 cobbled | nsubj |
| 2 | cobbled | cobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tent | det |
| 4 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cobbled | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 sticks | case |
| 6 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cobbled | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sheets | cc |
| 8 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sticks | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cobbled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cobble | past | We | a tent | sticks and sheets | tree rules |
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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