Who acts: Harmful, Bleach, Smoking, Plastic, much sun, berries · What happens: mean, cause, hurt, make, be, swallow · To what, where: harm, people, wild ones, adult, something · Speech: someone speaks here
«harmful» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 7 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: harmful in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Harmful means causing harm: hurting people, animals, plants or things, or making them ill.
The tree, 14 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2
causenot said to happen
gerund
Harmful not said here
harm
vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient
3
hurt
gerund
Harmful not said here
people and animals and plants or things
vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient
4
make
gerund
Harmful not said here
people
ill property
vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
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.
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2
seea condition, not said to happen
present
you
something
online property
vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
Example 7
Rumours can be harmful to people.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Rumours
rumour
NOUN
Number=Plur
4 harmful
nsubj
2
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
4 harmful
aux
3
be
be
AUX
VerbForm=Inf
4 harmful
cop
4
harmful
harmful
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
5
to
to
ADP
_
6 people
case
6
people
people
NOUN
Number=Plur
4 harmful
obl
7
.
.
PUNCT
_
4 harmful
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
is
can
Rumours
to people; harmful property
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.