garter

Who acts: garter, She, sock, he · What happens: be, wear, hold up, tie, fall down, pull up · To what, where: band, elastic, stocking, garter, knee, you · Speech: someone speaks here

«garter» 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: garter in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A garter is a band of elastic or cloth worn round the leg to hold up a stocking or sock.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 garter	det
2	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 band	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 band	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 band	det
5	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 elastic	case
7	elastic	elastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 band	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 cloth	cc
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 elastic	conj
10	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 elastic	acl
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 leg	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leg	det
13	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worn	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hold	mark
15	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 worn	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 hold	compound:prt
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stocking	det
18	stocking	stocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hold	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 sock	cc
20	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stocking	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 band	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a garter	a band	of elastic or cloth	tree rules
2	wear	participle		elastic or cloth not said here	round the leg	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	hold up	to-infinitive		a stocking or sock		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stocking=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

She tied her garter below the knee.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 garter	nmod:poss
4	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obj
5	below	below	ADP	_	7 knee	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knee	det
7	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	She	her garter		the knee			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garter=Patient

Example 2

His sock fell down, so he pulled up his garter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sock	nmod:poss
2	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pulled	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 pulled	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pulled	nsubj
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 pulled	compound:prt
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 garter	nmod:poss
11	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	His sock					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull up	past	he	his garter					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garter=Theme

Example 3

"I shall not tell you," said the garter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garter	det
11	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	shall	the garter = garter		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the garter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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