dale
Who acts: low piece, river, They, stream, village · What happens: lie, run, journey · To what, where: hills, river, hill, green dale, quiet dale
«dale» 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: dale in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A valley: a low piece of land lying between hills, often with a stream or river running through it.
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 valley | det |
| 2 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 piece | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 piece | amod |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 valley | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 piece | acl |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 hills | case |
| 11 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stream | punct |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 stream | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 stream | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stream | det |
| 16 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 river | cc |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stream | conj |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 river | acl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 running | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 valley | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | a low piece of land not said here | hills | with a stream or river | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between hill=Location | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | river not said here | river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory |
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 journeyed over hill and dale.
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 journeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 hill | case |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 journeyed | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dale | cc |
| 6 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hill | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 journeyed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | They | hill and dale | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory |
Example 2
A stream ran through the green dale.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stream | det |
| 2 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 dale | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dale | det |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dale | amod |
| 7 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | a stream | the green dale | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through dale=Trajectory |
Example 3
The village lay in a quiet dale.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 village | det |
| 2 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dale | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dale | det |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dale | amod |
| 7 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the village | a quiet dale | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dale=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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