drumhead

Who acts: drumhead, you, drummer, old drum · What happens: be, stretch, hit, make, tap, split · To what, where: tight skin, plastic sheet, drum, sound, drumhead, new drumhead

«drumhead» 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: drumhead in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

The drumhead is the tight skin or plastic sheet stretched across a drum, which is hit to make the sound.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drumhead	det
2	drumhead	drumhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 skin	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skin	det
5	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skin	amod
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 sheet	cc
8	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sheet	amod
9	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	conj
10	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sheet	acl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 drum	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 drum	det
13	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stretched	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hit	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hit	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hit	aux:pass
17	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 drum	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hit	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sound	det
21	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 skin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the drumhead	the tight skin or plastic sheet		tree rules
2	stretch	participle		plastic sheet not said here	a drum	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across drum=Location
3	hit	present · passive		a drum		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
4	make	to-infinitive		the sound		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

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

Tap the drumhead gently with your fingers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tap	tap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drumhead	det
3	drumhead	drumhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tap	obj
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Tap	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 fingers	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fingers	nmod:poss
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tap	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tap	imperative	you not said here	the drumhead				with your fingers; gently property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent drumhead=Patient with finger=Instrument

Example 2

The drumhead split when the drummer hit it too hard.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drumhead	det
2	drumhead	drumhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 split	nsubj
3	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hit	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drummer	det
6	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hit	nsubj
7	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 split	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hit	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 hit	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 split	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	the drumhead						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	hit	past	the drummer	drumhead				hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Example 3

The old drum needed a new drumhead.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drum	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drum	amod
3	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needed	nsubj
4	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drumhead	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drumhead	amod
7	drumhead	drumhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needed	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 needed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	the old drum	a new drumhead					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drumhead=Theme

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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