grotto
Who acts: children, nymphs, Santa · What happens: make, find, live, have · To what, where: shady place, garden, grotto, waterfall, shady grotto, shop
«grotto» 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: grotto in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A small cave, often a shady or decorated place, sometimes made in a garden.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cave | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cave | amod |
| 3 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 place | punct |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 place | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 7 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 decorated | cc |
| 9 | decorated | decorated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shady | conj |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 12 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 made | advmod |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 place | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 place | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a shady place not said here | a garden | sometimes property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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 children found a grotto behind the waterfall.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 grotto | det |
| 5 | grotto | grotto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 waterfall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 waterfall | det |
| 8 | waterfall | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grotto | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the children | a grotto | the waterfall | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grotto=Topic |
Example 2
The nymphs lived in a shady grotto.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nymphs | det |
| 2 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 grotto | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 grotto | det |
| 6 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grotto | amod |
| 7 | grotto | grotto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the nymphs | a shady grotto | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grotto=Location |
Example 3
Santa has a grotto in the shop.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa | Santa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 grotto | det |
| 4 | grotto | grotto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 shop | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shop | det |
| 7 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grotto | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Santa | a grotto | the shop | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grotto=Patient |
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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