herbage

Who acts: Herbage, animals, cows, elephants · What happens: be, graze on, graze, trample · To what, where: grass, food, herbage

«herbage» 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: herbage in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Herbage is grass and green plants, especially the food that animals graze on.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Herbage	herbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grass	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grass	cop
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 plants	cc
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plants	amod
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grass	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 food	punct
8	especially	especially	ADV	_	10 food	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grass	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 graze	obj
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 graze	nsubj
13	graze	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 food	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 graze	compound:prt
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grass	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Herbage	grass and green plants and the food					tree rules
2	graze on	present	animals	the food					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Experiencer

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 cows grazed on sweet herbage.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cows	det
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grazed	nsubj
3	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 herbage	case
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 herbage	amod
6	herbage	herbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grazed	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grazed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	graze	past	the cows					on sweet herbage	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on herbage=Patient

Example 2

The elephants trampled the herbage flat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elephants	det
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trampled	nsubj
3	trampled	trample	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 herbage	det
5	herbage	herbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trampled	obj
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trampled	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trampled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trample	past	the elephants	the herbage				flat property	tree rules

Example 3

After the rain, the herbage was thick and green.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 rain	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rain	det
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thick	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rain	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 herbage	det
6	herbage	herbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thick	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thick	cop
8	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 green	cc
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thick	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the herbage				after the rain	thick property	tree rules
2	be		the herbage 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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