macadamize
Who acts: flower garden · What happens: macadamize, be, break, press down, make, paint · To what, where: road, layers, firm smooth surface, roofs, flower garden, garden
«macadamize» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, 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: macadamize in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To macadamize a road is to cover it with layers of broken stone, pressed down hard to make a firm, smooth surface.
The tree, 22 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 macadamize | mark |
| 2 | macadamize | macadamize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cover | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 road | det |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 macadamize | obj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cover | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cover | mark |
| 7 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cover | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 layers | case |
| 10 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cover | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stone | amod |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 layers | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pressed | punct |
| 15 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 layers | acl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 pressed | compound:prt |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 pressed | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pressed | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 surface | det |
| 21 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 surface | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 firm | punct |
| 23 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 surface | amod |
| 24 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cover | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | macadamize | to-infinitive | a road | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | with layers of broken stone; cover property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | press down | participle | layers of broken stone not said here | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | a firm smooth surface | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset surface=Product |
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 roofs were gayly painted, and before each house was a flower garden, which separated it from the macadamized high-road.
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roofs | det |
| 2 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 painted | aux:pass |
| 4 | gayly | gayly | ADV | _ | 5 painted | advmod |
| 5 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 garden | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 garden | cc |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garden | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 garden | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 13 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garden | compound |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 painted | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 separated | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 separated | nsubj |
| 17 | separated | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 garden | acl:relcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 separated | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 road | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 21 | macadamized | macadamize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 road | amod |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 road | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 high | punct |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 separated | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 painted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past · passive | the roofs | gayly property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a flower garden | before each house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | separate | past | a flower garden | garden | from the macadamized high road | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from road=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | macadamize | participle | 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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