hydra

Who acts: cutting, hero, hydra · What happens: cut off, let, grow, have, slay · To what, where: one, hydra, nine heads

«hydra» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: hydra in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A monster from Greek stories: a huge snake with many heads, where cutting one off lets more grow. Also a tiny water creature.

Sentence 1: A monster from Greek stories: a huge snake with many heads, where cutting one off lets more grow.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 monster	det
2	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snake	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 stories	case
4	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stories	amod
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 monster	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 snake	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snake	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 snake	amod
9	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 heads	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heads	amod
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 snake	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lets	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 lets	advmod
15	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 lets	csubj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 cutting	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	15 cutting	compound:prt
18	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 snake	parataxis
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 lets	advmod
20	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lets	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 snake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cut off	gerund		one	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector one=Eventuality
2	let	present	cutting		tree rules
3	grow	infinitive	cutting not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Also a tiny water creature.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Also	also	ADV	_	5 creature	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 creature	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creature	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 creature	compound
5	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 creature	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 1

The hero had to slay the hydra.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hero	det
2	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 slay	mark
5	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hydra	det
7	hydra	hydra	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slay	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the hero						tree rules
2	slay	to-infinitive	the hero not said here	the hydra					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hydra=Patient

Example 2

The hydra had nine heads.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hydra	det
2	hydra	hydra	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 heads	nummod
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the hydra	nine heads					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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