Who acts: They, flagstaff, Lightning · What happens: fly, flutter, raise up, stand, strike, discover · To what, where: tall pole, flag, top, roof, tall flagstaff, Pluto
«flagstaff» in the school dictionary: its meaning 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: flagstaff in the school dictionary.
vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on which=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 flag fluttered on top of the flagstaff.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
The
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
2 flag
det
2
flag
flag
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
3
fluttered
flutter
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
2 flag
acl
4
on
on
ADP
_
5 top
case
5
top
top
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 fluttered
obl
6
of
of
ADP
_
8 flagstaff
case
7
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
8 flagstaff
det
8
flagstaff
flagstaff
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 top
nmod
9
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 flag
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
flutter
participle
the flag not said here
top of the flagstaff
vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location
Example 2
They raised the flag up the flagstaff every morning.
vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mast=Destination on flagstaff=Initial_Location
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.