Who acts: housedog, dog, farmer · What happens: be, keep, guard, use, bark, sleep · To what, where: dog, house, housedog, one, home, hound
«housedog» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 5 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: housedog in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A housedog is a dog kept in a house or yard to guard it, not one used for hunting.
The tree, 19 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location
3
guard
to-infinitive
housedog
vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
4
use
participle · passive
a dog not said here
one
for hunting
vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for hunting=Eventuality
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 housedog barked at the stranger at the gate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
The
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
2 housedog
det
2
housedog
housedog
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
3
barked
bark
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
2 housedog
acl
4
at
at
ADP
_
6 stranger
case
5
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
6 stranger
det
6
stranger
stranger
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 barked
obl
7
at
at
ADP
_
9 gate
case
8
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
9 gate
det
9
gate
gate
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 stranger
nmod
10
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 housedog
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
bark
participle
the housedog not said here
at the stranger at the gate
vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at stranger=Stimulus
vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient meat=Theme
2
keep
to-infinitive
meat
quiet property
vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
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.