Who acts: Ancient people, surgeon, you, carver · What happens: cut, carve, incise, use · To what, where: pattern, something, patterns, pots, names, stone
«incise» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: incise in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Usage: formal — kept apart, not parsed.
To cut carefully into a surface, such as stone, wood or skin.
The tree, 12 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 cut
mark
2
cut
cut
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
carefully
carefully
ADV
_
2 cut
advmod
4
into
into
ADP
_
6 surface
case
5
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
6 surface
det
6
surface
surface
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 cut
obl
7
,
,
PUNCT
_
10 stone
punct
8
such
such
ADJ
Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP
10 stone
case
9
as
as
ADP
_
8 such
fixed
10
stone
stone
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 surface
appos
11
,
,
PUNCT
_
12 wood
punct
12
wood
wood
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 surface
nmod
13
or
or
CCONJ
_
14 skin
cc
14
skin
skin
NOUN
Number=Sing
12 wood
conj
15
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 cut
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
cut
to-infinitive
into a surface wood or skin; carefully property
vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into surface=Patient
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 carve a pattern or letters into something.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 carve
mark
2
carve
carve
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
4 pattern
det
4
pattern
pattern
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 carve
obj
5
or
or
CCONJ
_
6 letters
cc
6
letters
letter
NOUN
Number=Plur
4 pattern
conj
7
into
into
ADP
_
8 something
case
8
something
something
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
2 carve
obl
9
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 carve
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
carve
to-infinitive
a pattern or letters
something
vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent pattern=Material into something=Product
vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent shape=Theme on wood=Destination
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.