Who acts: I, pencil, teacher, Erasers, 4 erasers, you · What happens: use, remove, wipe, borrow, make, have · To what, where: rubber, pencil marks, pad, chalkboard, eraser, mistake
«eraser» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 6 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: eraser in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A small piece of rubber or plastic used to remove pencil marks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
A
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
3 piece
det
2
small
small
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 piece
amod
3
piece
piece
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
4
of
of
ADP
_
5 rubber
case
5
rubber
rubber
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 piece
nmod
6
or
or
CCONJ
_
7 plastic
cc
7
plastic
plastic
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 rubber
conj
8
used
use
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
5 rubber
acl
9
to
to
PART
_
10 remove
mark
10
remove
remove
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
8 used
advcl
11
pencil
pencil
NOUN
Number=Sing
12 marks
compound
12
marks
mark
NOUN
Number=Plur
10 remove
obj
13
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 piece
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
use
participle
rubber or plastic not said here
vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2
remove
to-infinitive
pencil marks
vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme
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
A pad used to wipe a chalkboard or whiteboard clean.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
A
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
2 pad
det
2
pad
pad
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
3
used
use
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
2 pad
acl
4
to
to
PART
_
5 wipe
mark
5
wipe
wipe
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
3 used
advcl
6
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
7 chalkboard
det
7
chalkboard
chalkboard
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 wipe
obj
8
or
or
CCONJ
_
9 whiteboard
cc
9
whiteboard
whiteboard
NOUN
Number=Sing
7 chalkboard
conj
10
clean
clean
ADJ
Degree=Pos
7 chalkboard
amod
11
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 pad
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
use
participle
a pad not said here
vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2
wipe
to-infinitive
a chalkboard or whiteboard
vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chalkboard=Source
Example 1
Can I borrow your eraser? I made a mistake.
Sentence 1: Can I borrow your eraser?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
3 borrow
aux
2
I
I
PRON
Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs
3 borrow
nsubj
3
borrow
borrow
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
4
your
your
PRON
Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs
5 eraser
nmod:poss
5
eraser
eraser
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 borrow
obj
6
?
?
PUNCT
_
3 borrow
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
borrow
can
I
your eraser
vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eraser=Theme
vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eraser=Eventuality
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.