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hieroglyphic

Who acts: ancient Egyptians, tomb, Hieroglyphic writing, markings, Its · What happens: write, read, have, use, look, mark · To what, where: picture signs, hieroglyphic signs, wall, pictures, hieroglyphic, me

«hieroglyphic» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: hieroglyphic in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Written in picture signs, as the ancient Egyptians wrote.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 signs	case
3	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signs	compound
4	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Written	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wrote	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 wrote	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Egyptians	det
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Egyptians	amod
9	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 wrote	nsubj
10	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Written	parataxis
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Written	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle				picture signs			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sign=Destination
2	write	past	the ancient Egyptians						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Meaning 2

Hard to read, like secret picture writing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 read	mark
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hard	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 writing	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 writing	case
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 writing	amod
7	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 writing	compound
8	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	to-infinitive						like secret picture writing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 1

The tomb had hieroglyphic signs on the wall.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tomb	det
2	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hieroglyphic	hieroglyphic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 signs	amod
5	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the tomb	hieroglyphic signs		the wall			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient

Example 2

Hieroglyphic writing uses pictures for sounds and ideas.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hieroglyphic	hieroglyphic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 writing	amod
2	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 uses	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 sounds	case
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 uses	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ideas	cc
8	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sounds	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Hieroglyphic writing	pictures				for sounds and ideas	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent picture=Theme for sound=Eventuality

Example 3

Its markings looked hieroglyphic to me.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 markings	nmod:poss
2	markings	marking	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hieroglyphic	hieroglyphic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Its markings	hieroglyphic	me				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hieroglyphic=Attribute
2	mark		Its = it						nom marking «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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