lancers

Who acts: Lancers, horses, long spears, king, Ten lancers · What happens: be, fight, call, send, ride out, guard · To what, where: soldiers, lances, hundred lancers, gate · Speech: someone speaks here

«lancers» 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: lancers in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Lancers are soldiers on horses who fight with long spears called lances.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lancers	lancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 soldiers	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 soldiers	cop
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 horses	case
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 soldiers	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fight	nsubj
7	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 horses	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 spears	case
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spears	amod
10	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fight	obl
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 spears	acl
12	lances	lance	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 called	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 soldiers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lancers	soldiers	on horses	tree rules
2	fight	present	horses		with long spears	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with spear=Co-Agent
3	call	participle	long spears not said here	lances		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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

The king sent five hundred lancers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lancers	nummod
6	lancers	lancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the king	hundred lancers					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lancer=Theme

Example 2

The lancers rode out at dawn.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lancers	det
2	lancers	lancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 rode	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride out	past	the lancers				dawn		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

Ten lancers guarded the gate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lancers	nummod
2	lancers	lancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guarded	nsubj
3	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guarded	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 guarded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past	Ten lancers	the gate					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary

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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