crossway
Who acts: crossway, two roads, They, you · What happens: be, meet, carry out, bury, wait · To what, where: place, pots, She, crossway
«crossway» 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: crossway in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.
A crossway is a place where two or more roads meet; a crossroads.
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crossway | det |
| 2 | crossway | crossway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 meet | advmod |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 roads | nummod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 more | cc |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 two | conj |
| 10 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 meet | nsubj |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 crossroads | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 crossroads | det |
| 14 | crossroads | crossroad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 place | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a crossway | a place and a crossroads | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | present | two roads | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Example 1
They carried the pots out to a crossway.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pots | det |
| 4 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 carried | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 crossway | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crossway | det |
| 8 | crossway | crossway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | past | They | the pots | to a crossway; out property | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Eventuality |
Example 2
She was buried at a crossway.
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 | 3 buried | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buried | aux:pass |
| 3 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 crossway | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crossway | det |
| 6 | crossway | crossway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past · passive | She | a crossway | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at crossway=Destination |
Example 3
Wait for me at the crossway by the old oak.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Wait | obl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 crossway | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crossway | det |
| 6 | crossway | crossway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 oak | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 oak | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 oak | amod |
| 10 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | the crossway | for me; by the old oak | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crossway=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.
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