ebony
Who acts: Ebony, hair, piano keys · What happens: be, mean, make · To what, where: hard dark black wood, black, chopsticks, ebony
«ebony» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: ebony in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Ebony is a very hard, dark black wood.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ebony | ebony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wood | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wood | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wood | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wood | amod |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wood | amod |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wood | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ebony | a hard dark black wood | 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.
Meaning 2
Ebony means very black, like the wood.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ebony | ebony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 black | advmod |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wood | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 black | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Ebony | black | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent black=Topic |
Example 1
The chopsticks were made of ebony.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chopsticks | det |
| 2 | chopsticks | chopstick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ebony | case |
| 6 | ebony | ebony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the chopsticks | of ebony | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Example 2
Her hair was as black as ebony.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 black | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 black | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 black | advmod |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 ebony | case |
| 7 | ebony | ebony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 black | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 black | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Her hair | as ebony; black property | tree rules |
Example 3
The piano keys were ebony and ivory.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 keys | det |
| 2 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keys | compound |
| 3 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ebony | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ebony | cop |
| 5 | ebony | ebony | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ivory | cc |
| 7 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ebony | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ebony | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the piano keys | ebony and ivory | tree rules |
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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