labored
Who acts: she, He · What happens: do, breathe, labor, climb, hear · To what, where: breath, hill, step · Speech: someone speaks here
«labored» 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: labored in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Done with great effort, or breathing hard and slowly, as if tired.
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 effort | case |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 effort | amod |
| 4 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Done | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 breathing | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 breathing | cc |
| 7 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Done | advcl |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 breathing | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slowly | cc |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 hard | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tired | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 tired | case |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 tired | mark |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 breathing | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Done | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | with great effort | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | breathe | gerund | hard property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Her breath was labored as she climbed the hill.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 breath | nmod:poss |
| 2 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 labored | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 labored | aux:pass |
| 4 | labored | labor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 climbed | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 climbed | nsubj |
| 7 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 labored | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hill | det |
| 9 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 labored | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | labor | past · passive | Her breath | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | climb | past | she | the hill | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme |
Example 2
He heard their labored breathing behind him.
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 | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 labored | nmod:poss |
| 4 | labored | labor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 heard | ccomp |
| 5 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 heard | advcl |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 breathing | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | He | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | labor | participle | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | breathe | gerund | He not said here | behind him = he | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Example 3
Each step was more labored than the last.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 step | det |
| 2 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 labored | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 labored | aux:pass |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 labored | advmod |
| 5 | labored | labor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 last | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 labored | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 labored | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | labor | past · passive | each step | than the last | 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.
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