drachma

Who acts: basket, He, fisherman · What happens: coin, cost, count, sell · To what, where: ancient Greece, hundred drachmas, him, silver drachmas, fish

«drachma» 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: drachma in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

an old silver coin of ancient Greece, also a unit of money.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coin	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coin	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coin	compound
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Greece	case
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Greece	amod
7	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 coin	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 unit	punct
9	also	also	ADV	_	11 unit	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 unit	det
11	unit	unit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coin	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 money	case
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 unit	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 coin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin			ancient Greece					nom coin «possession transitive»: of=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.

Example 1

The basket cost him a hundred drachmas.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 basket	det
2	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cost	nsubj
3	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cost	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 drachmas	nummod
7	drachmas	drachma	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cost	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	past	the basket	hundred drachmas	him = he				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary drachma=Value

Example 2

He counted his silver drachmas one by one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 counted	nsubj
2	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 drachmas	nmod:poss
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drachmas	compound
5	drachmas	drachma	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 counted	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 drachmas	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 counted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past	He	his silver drachmas one by one					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drachma=Theme

Example 3

The fisherman sold the fish for ten drachmas.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 drachmas	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 drachmas	nummod
8	drachmas	drachma	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sold	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	the fisherman	the fish				for ten drachmas	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for drachma=Asset

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