dustman

Who acts: dustman, worker, cart, dustmen · What happens: be, collect, carry away, empty, come down · To what, where: worker, rubbish, bins, cart, bin, street

«dustman» 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: dustman in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A dustman is a worker who collects rubbish from bins and carries it away in a cart.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dustman	det
2	dustman	dustman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worker	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worker	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 worker	det
5	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 collects	nsubj
7	collects	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worker	acl:relcl
8	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 collects	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 bins	case
10	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 collects	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 carries	cc
12	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 collects	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 carries	obj
14	away	away	ADV	_	12 carries	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 cart	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cart	det
17	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carries	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worker	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a dustman	a worker			tree rules
2	collect	present	a worker	rubbish	bins		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme from bin=Source
3	carry away	present	a worker not said here	rubbish	a cart	away property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in cart=Location

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 dustman emptied our bin on Monday.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dustman	det
2	dustman	dustman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 emptied	nsubj
3	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bin	nmod:poss
5	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 emptied	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Monday	case
7	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 emptied	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 emptied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	empty	past	the dustman	our bin			monday		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bin=Source

Example 2

The dustman's cart was full of rubbish.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dustman	det
2	dustman	dustman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cart	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dustman	case
4	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 rubbish	case
8	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dustman's cart					of rubbish; full property	tree rules

Example 3

Every week the dustmen come down our street.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dustmen	det
4	dustmen	dustman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 street	nmod:poss
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	present	the dustmen	our street			week	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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