cowslip

Who acts: pale yellow smelling blossoms, We, field, She · What happens: smell, grow, pick, be, make, crown · To what, where: grass, cowslips, meadow, crown

«cowslip» 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: cowslip in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A wild spring flower with pale yellow, sweet-smelling blossoms that grows in grass and meadows.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flower	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flower	amod
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flower	compound
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	12 blossoms	case
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 blossoms	amod
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 blossoms	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yellow	punct
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 smelling	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sweet	punct
11	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 blossoms	amod
12	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flower	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 grows	nsubj
14	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 blossoms	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 grass	case
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grows	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 meadows	cc
18	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grass	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flower	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund							vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	present	pale yellow smelling blossoms			grass and meadows			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=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

We picked cowslips in the meadow.

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 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cowslips	cowslip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 picked	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 meadow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meadow	det
6	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	We	cowslips		the meadow			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cowslip=Patient

Example 2

The field was yellow with cowslips.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 field	det
2	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yellow	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 yellow	cop
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 cowslips	case
6	cowslips	cowslip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 yellow	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 yellow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the field					with cowslips; yellow property	tree rules

Example 3

She made a crown of cowslips.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crown	det
4	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cowslips	case
6	cowslips	cowslip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crown	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	She	a crown of cowslips					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Product
2	crown			cowslips					nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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.

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