Who acts: Coppery, beech, leaves, She, sky, old coin · What happens: mean, have, taste, smell, leaf, turn · To what, where: colour, coppery hair, coppery shine, coppery taste, old pipes, coppery fur
«coppery» 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: coppery in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Coppery means having the colour of copper: a shiny reddish-brown or orange-brown.
The tree, 14 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2
havenot said to happen
gerund
Coppery not said here
the colour of copper
vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
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
Coppery can also mean tasting or smelling of copper, like metal.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Coppery
coppery
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 mean
nsubj
2
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
4 mean
aux
3
also
also
ADV
_
4 mean
advmod
4
mean
mean
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
5
tasting
taste
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
4 mean
xcomp
6
or
or
CCONJ
_
7 smelling
cc
7
smelling
smell
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
5 tasting
conj
8
of
of
ADP
_
9 copper
case
9
copper
copper
NOUN
Number=Sing
7 smelling
obl
10
,
,
PUNCT
_
12 metal
punct
11
like
like
ADP
_
12 metal
case
12
metal
metal
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 tasting
obl
13
.
.
PUNCT
_
4 mean
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
mean
can
Coppery
vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2
tastenot said to happen
gerund
Coppery not said here
like metal
vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3
smell
gerund
Coppery not said here
of copper
vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of copper=Theme
vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient
Example 6
The fox's coppery fur shone in the sun.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
The
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
2 fox
det
2
fox
fox
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 fur
nmod:poss
3
's
's
PART
_
2 fox
case
4
coppery
coppery
ADJ
Degree=Pos
5 fur
amod
5
fur
fur
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
6
shone
shine
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
5 fur
acl
7
in
in
ADP
_
9 sun.
case
8
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
9 sun.
det
9
sun.
sun.
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 shone
obl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
shine
participle
the fox's coppery fur not said here
the sun.
vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun.=Location
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.