flavor
Who acts: flavor, food, I · What happens: be, flavor, taste, drink, like · To what, where: food, unleavened flour, flavor
«flavor» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 2 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: flavor in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
The flavor of food is how it tastes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flavor | det |
| 2 | flavor | flavor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tastes | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 food | case |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flavor | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tastes | cop |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 tastes | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tastes | nsubj |
| 8 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tastes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the flavor of food | taste property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flavor | food | nom flavor «state transitive»: of=patient |
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
To flavor food is to add something to it, such as herbs or garlic, so that it tastes of something.
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 flavor | mark |
| 2 | flavor | flavor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 add | advcl |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flavor | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 add | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 add | mark |
| 6 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 add | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 something | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 herbs | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 herbs | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 something | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 garlic | cc |
| 15 | garlic | garlic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 herbs | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tastes | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 tastes | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tastes | nsubj |
| 20 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 add | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 something | case |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 tastes | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 add | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flavor | to-infinitive | food | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | add property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | taste | present | food | of something | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Example 1
Cakes of unleavened flour flavored with garlic.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 flour | case |
| 3 | unleavened | unleavened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flour | amod |
| 4 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cakes | nmod |
| 5 | flavored | flavor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 flour | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 garlic | case |
| 7 | garlic | garlic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flavored | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cakes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flavor | participle | unleavened flour not said here | with garlic | tree rules |
Example 2
But the more I drink of it, the better I like the flavor.
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 drink | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 more | det |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 drink | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 drink | nsubj |
| 5 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drink | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 better | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 better | det |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 drink | advcl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 like | nsubj |
| 12 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 better | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flavor | det |
| 14 | flavor | flavor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 like | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drink | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | I | of it | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source | ||||
| 2 | like | present | I | the flavor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flavor=Theme |
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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