madhouse
Who acts: people, madman, He · What happens: be, keep, mind, reply, die · To what, where: minds, people, keeper
«madhouse» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: madhouse in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
An old word for a hospital where people who were very ill in their minds were kept.
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 hospital | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hospital | det |
| 6 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | nmod |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 kept | advmod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ill | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ill | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 ill | advmod |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 minds | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 minds | nmod:poss |
| 15 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ill | obl |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 kept | aux:pass |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hospital | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 word | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people | people's minds | ill property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | past · passive | people | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mind | people | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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
"A madman," replies the keeper of the madhouse.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replies | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 madman | det |
| 3 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replies | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 madman | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 madman | punct |
| 6 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 keeper | det |
| 8 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replies | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 madhouse | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 madhouse | det |
| 11 | madhouse | madhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeper | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | present | a madman | the keeper of the madhouse | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent keeper=Topic |
Example 2
He dies in the madhouse.
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 dies | nsubj |
| 2 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 madhouse | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 madhouse | det |
| 5 | madhouse | madhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dies | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | He | in the madhouse | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in madhouse=Attribute |
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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