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gruel

Who acts: food, orphan, you, gruel · What happens: make, boil, be, eat · To what, where: thin watery food, cheap food, bowl, gruel

«gruel» 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: gruel in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A thin, watery food made by boiling oats or other grain in water or milk. It was cheap food for poor people or the sick long ago. (old use).

Sentence 1: A thin, watery food made by boiling oats or other grain in water or milk.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 food	det
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thin	punct
4	watery	watery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 food	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 oats	case
8	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 oats	amod
9	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 grain	cc
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grain	amod
12	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 oats	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 water	case
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grain	nmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 milk	cc
16	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 water	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 food	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a thin watery food not said here				by boiling oats or other grain in water or milk	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: It was cheap food for poor people or the sick long ago.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 food	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 food	cop
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 food	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 sick	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sick	det
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	conj
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 ago	advmod
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 sick	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 food	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	food	cheap food				for poor people	tree rules

Sentence 3: (old use).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 use	amod
3	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 1

The orphan ate a bowl of gruel.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 orphan	det
2	orphan	orphan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bowl	det
5	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gruel	case
7	gruel	gruel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bowl	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the orphan	a bowl of gruel					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient

Example 2

Make some gruel for the sick king.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 gruel	det
3	gruel	gruel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 king	amod
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gruel	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	some gruel				for the sick king	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent gruel=Material for king=Beneficiary

Example 3

The gruel was thin and cold.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gruel	det
2	gruel	gruel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thin	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	cop
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cold	cc
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thin	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the gruel					thin property	tree rules
2	be		the gruel not said here						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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