hundredweight

Who acts: hundredweight, unit, sack, He, cart · What happens: be, weigh, not lift, carry · To what, where: unit, heavy things, 112 pounds, Britain, 100 pounds, America

«hundredweight» 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: hundredweight in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A hundredweight is a unit for weighing heavy things: in Britain it is 112 pounds, and in America it is 100 pounds.

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundredweight	det
2	hundredweight	hundredweight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unit	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unit	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 unit	det
5	unit	unit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 weighing	mark
7	weighing	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 unit	acl
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 weighing	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 pounds	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Britain	case
12	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 pounds	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pounds	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 pounds	cop
15	112	112	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 pounds	nummod
16	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unit	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pounds	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pounds	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 America	case
20	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 pounds	obl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pounds	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 pounds	cop
23	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 pounds	nummod
24	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pounds	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 unit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	a hundredweight	a unit		tree rules
2	weigh	gerund	a unit not said here	heavy things		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thing=Value
3	is a	present	hundredweight	112 pounds and 100 pounds	Britain	tree rules
4	is a	present	hundredweight	100 pounds	America	tree rules

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

A sack of coal can weigh a hundredweight.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weigh	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 coal	case
4	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sack	nmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 weigh	aux
6	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hundredweight	det
8	hundredweight	hundredweight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weigh	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 weigh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	can	a sack of coal	a hundredweight					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hundredweight=Value

Example 2

He could not lift a hundredweight of stone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lift	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lift	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 lift	advmod
4	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundredweight	det
6	hundredweight	hundredweight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lift	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 stone	case
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hundredweight	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lift	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lift	could	He	a hundredweight of stone					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundredweight=Theme

Example 3

The cart carried three hundredweight of apples.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cart	det
2	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundredweight	nummod
5	hundredweight	hundredweight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 apples	case
7	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hundredweight	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the cart	three hundredweight of apples					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundredweight=Theme

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