eider
Who acts: eider, She, eider ducks, bed · What happens: be, use, fill, sleep, swim, have · To what, where: large sea duck, soft feathers, quilts, warm down quilt, bay, twenty down quilts
«eider» 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: eider in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
An eider is a large sea duck.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 eider | det |
| 2 | eider | eider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 duck | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 duck | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 duck | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 duck | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 duck | compound |
| 7 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 duck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a eider | a large sea duck | 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
Eider-down is the very soft feathers of this duck, used to fill quilts.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eider | eider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feathers | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 down | punct |
| 3 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Eider | conj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feathers | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feathers | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 soft | advmod |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feathers | amod |
| 8 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 duck | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 duck | det |
| 11 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feathers | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 used | punct |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 feathers | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fill | mark |
| 15 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 used | advcl |
| 16 | quilts | quilt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fill | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 feathers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Eider and down | the soft feathers | of this duck | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | Eider and down not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fill | to-infinitive | Eider and down not said here | quilts | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent quilt=Patient |
Example 1
She slept under a warm eider-down quilt.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slept | nsubj |
| 2 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 quilt | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 quilt | det |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quilt | amod |
| 6 | eider | eider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 down | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 eider | punct |
| 8 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quilt | compound |
| 9 | quilt | quilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slept | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | She | a warm down quilt | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Example 2
The eider ducks swam in the bay.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ducks | det |
| 2 | eider | eider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ducks | compound |
| 3 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swam | nsubj |
| 4 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bay | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bay | det |
| 7 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swam | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swam | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | the eider ducks | the bay | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bay=Trajectory |
Example 3
The bed had twenty eider-down quilts.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bed | det |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 quilts | nummod |
| 5 | eider | eider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 down | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 eider | punct |
| 7 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quilts | compound |
| 8 | quilts | quilt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the bed | twenty down quilts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quilt=Patient |
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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