ferryboat

Who acts: ferryboat, boat, We, He · What happens: be, carry, cross, spring · To what, where: boat, people, river, ferryboat, twenty people

«ferryboat» 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: ferryboat in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A ferryboat is a boat that carries people, cars or goods across a river or sea and back again.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ferryboat	det
2	ferryboat	ferryboat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boat	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boat	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boat	det
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 carries	nsubj
7	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boat	acl:relcl
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carries	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cars	punct
10	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 people	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 goods	cc
12	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 people	conj
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carries	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 sea	cc
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 river	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 back	cc
19	back	back	ADV	_	15 river	conj
20	again	again	ADV	_	7 carries	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 boat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a ferryboat	a boat					tree rules
2	carry	present	a boat	people and cars or goods		a river or sea	again		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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.

Example 1

We crossed the river on the ferryboat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 crossed	nsubj
2	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossed	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ferryboat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ferryboat	det
7	ferryboat	ferryboat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossed	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crossed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	We	the river		the ferryboat			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient

Example 2

He sprang into the ferryboat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 ferryboat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ferryboat	det
5	ferryboat	ferryboat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sprang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	He			the ferryboat			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ferryboat=Destination

Example 3

The ferryboat carried twenty people at a time.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ferryboat	det
2	ferryboat	ferryboat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 people	nummod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carried	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the ferryboat	twenty people			time		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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