frizzle
Who acts: fat, kitchen, pheasants · What happens: cook, sizzle, go, curl, frizzle, be · To what, where: hair, tight small curls, sausages, pan, spit
«frizzle» 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: frizzle in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To cook in hot fat so that it sizzles and goes crisp.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 cook | mark |
| 2 | cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fat | case |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fat | amod |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cook | obl |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 sizzles | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | fixed |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sizzles | nsubj |
| 9 | sizzles | sizzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cook | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 goes | cc |
| 11 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sizzles | conj |
| 12 | crisp | crisp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 goes | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cook | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | to-infinitive | in hot fat | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in fat=Instrument | |||||
| 2 | sizzle | present | fat | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | present | fat not said here | crisp property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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
To curl hair into tight small curls.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 curl | mark |
| 2 | curl | curl | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 curl | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 curls | case |
| 5 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 curls | amod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 curls | amod |
| 7 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 curl | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 curl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl | to-infinitive | hair | tight small curls | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hair=Theme into curl=Destination |
Example 1
The sausages frizzled in the pan.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sausages | det |
| 2 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | frizzled | frizzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sausages | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pan | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pan | det |
| 6 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 frizzled | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sausages | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frizzle | participle | the sausages not said here | the pan | tree rules |
Example 2
The kitchen was full of frizzling smells.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kitchen | det |
| 2 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 smells | case |
| 6 | frizzling | frizzling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 smells | amod |
| 7 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the kitchen | of frizzling smells; full property | tree rules |
Example 3
The pheasants were frizzling on the spit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pheasants | det |
| 2 | pheasants | pheasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frizzling | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frizzling | aux |
| 4 | frizzling | frizzle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 spit | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spit | det |
| 7 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frizzling | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frizzling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frizzle | past · progressive | the pheasants | the spit | tree rules |
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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