Who acts: you, Jaywalking, We, police officer, Drivers, children · What happens: cross, wait, not jaywalk, use, fine, jaywalk · To what, where: road, crossing, He, jaywalker, children, buses
«jaywalk» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 6 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: jaywalk in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To cross a road carelessly or in a place where you should not, not at a crossing and without waiting for the green signal.
The tree, 24 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 cross
mark
2
cross
cross
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
4 road
det
4
road
road
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 cross
obj
5
carelessly
carelessly
ADV
_
9 place
advmod
6
or
or
CCONJ
_
9 place
cc
7
in
in
ADP
_
9 place
case
8
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
9 place
det
9
place
place
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 cross
obl
10
where
where
ADV
PronType=Rel
12 should
advmod
11
you
you
PRON
Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs
12 should
nsubj
12
should
should
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
9 place
acl:relcl
13
not
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
12 should
advmod
14
,
,
PUNCT
_
18 crossing
punct
15
not
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
18 crossing
advmod
16
at
at
ADP
_
18 crossing
case
17
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
18 crossing
det
18
crossing
crossing
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 cross
obl
19
and
and
CCONJ
_
21 waiting
cc
20
without
without
SCONJ
_
21 waiting
mark
21
waiting
wait
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
18 crossing
conj
22
for
for
ADP
_
25 signal
case
23
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
25 signal
det
24
green
green
ADJ
Degree=Pos
25 signal
amod
25
signal
signal
NOUN
Number=Sing
21 waiting
obl
26
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 cross
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
cross
to-infinitive
a road
at a crossing; in a place
vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent road=Patient in place=Topic
2
wait
gerund
for the green signal
vn exist-47.1 «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.
Example 1
Don't jaywalk; use the crossing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Do
do
AUX
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
3 jaywalk
aux
2
n't
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
3 jaywalk
advmod
3
jaywalk
jaywalk
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
4
;
;
PUNCT
_
5 use
punct
5
use
use
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
3 jaywalk
conj
6
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
7 crossing
det
7
crossing
crossing
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 use
obj
8
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 jaywalk
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
notjaywalk
imperative · do-support
you not said here
tree rules
2
use
infinitive
you not said here
the crossing
vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crossing=Patient
vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
2
jaywalk
present
children
buses
tree rules
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.