Who acts: copepod, that, you, Copepods, small fish, Billions · What happens: be, live, need, see, eat, drift · To what, where: tiny animal, sea, microscope, legs, tiny algae, ocean
«copepod» in the school dictionary: its meaning 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: copepod in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Usage: science — kept apart, not parsed.
A copepod is a tiny animal with a hard shell and many legs, a relative of crabs and shrimps, that lives in the sea and in fresh water.
The tree, 28 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
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
A copepod is so small you need a microscope to see its legs.
Without copepods, many ocean food chains would collapse.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Without
without
ADP
_
2 copepods
case
2
copepods
copepod
NOUN
Number=Plur
9 collapse
obl
3
,
,
PUNCT
_
2 copepods
punct
4
many
many
ADJ
Degree=Pos
7 chains
amod
5
ocean
ocean
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 food
compound
6
food
food
NOUN
Number=Sing
7 chains
compound
7
chains
chain
NOUN
Number=Plur
9 collapse
nsubj
8
would
would
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
9 collapse
aux
9
collapse
collapse
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
10
.
.
PUNCT
_
9 collapse
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
collapse
would
many food chains
without copepods
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.