Who acts: plant, you, Boiling, dry countries, We, Desalted water · What happens: desalt, be, make, drink, soak, boil · To what, where: something, salt, seawater, drinking water, salty fish, fish
«desalt» 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: desalt in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To desalt something is to remove salt from it, such as seawater or salty food.
The tree, 15 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn debone-10.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Source
2
is
present
salt
remove property
tree rules
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
The plant desalts seawater to make drinking water.
vn debone-10.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Source
2
use
gerund
We not said here
evaporation
vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evaporation=Patient
Example 6
Desalted water must still be clean to drink safely.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Desalted
desalt
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
2 water
amod
2
water
water
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 clean
nsubj
3
must
must
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
6 clean
aux
4
still
still
ADV
_
6 clean
advmod
5
be
be
AUX
VerbForm=Inf
6 clean
cop
6
clean
clean
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
7
to
to
PART
_
8 drink
mark
8
drink
drink
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
6 clean
advcl
9
safely
safely
ADV
_
8 drink
advmod
10
.
.
PUNCT
_
6 clean
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
desalt
participle
vn debone-10.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2
is
must
Desalted water
still
clean property
tree rules
3
drink
to-infinitive
Desalted water not said here
safely property
vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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.