Who acts: something, Petrol, rocket, spark, science show, show · What happens: ignite, be, burn, make, start, keep away · To what, where: something, feeling, match, Petrol, flames, engines · Speech: someone speaks here
«ignite» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 7 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: ignite in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To ignite is to start burning or to make something start burning.
vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6
burn
gerund
something not said here
vn light_emission-43.1 «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.
Meaning 2
To ignite a feeling or interest is to make it suddenly strong.
vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent interest=Patient
2
interest
show
space
nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place
Example 6
Never try to ignite fireworks without an adult.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Never
never
ADV
PronType=Neg
2 try
advmod
2
try
try
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
to
to
PART
_
4 ignite
mark
4
ignite
ignite
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
2 try
xcomp
5
fireworks
firework
NOUN
Number=Plur
4 ignite
obj
6
without
without
ADP
_
8 adult
case
7
an
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
8 adult
det
8
adult
adult
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 ignite
obl
9
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 try
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
nottry
imperative
you not said here
vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2
ignitenot said to happen
to-infinitive
you not said here
fireworks
without a adult
vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent firework=Patient
Example 7
During this festival it was customary for shepherds to ignite a mass of straw, through which they rushed with their flocks, believing that this ordeal would purify them from sin.
The tree, 30 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mass=Patient
3
rush
past
shepherds = shepherd
with shepherds's flocks
vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Trajectory
4
believe
gerund
shepherds = shepherdnot said here
vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5
purify
would
this ordeal
shepherds = shepherd
from sin
vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Source from sin=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.