mainmast
Who acts: mainmast, sailing ship, head, sailors · What happens: be, hold, get, climb, fix · To what, where: tallest important pole, big sails, work, mainmast, sail
«mainmast» 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: mainmast in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
The mainmast is the tallest and most important pole of a sailing ship, which holds the big sails.
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mainmast | det |
| 2 | mainmast | mainmast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pole | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pole | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pole | det |
| 5 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 pole | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pole | cc |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 important | advmod |
| 8 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pole | amod |
| 9 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ship | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ship | det |
| 12 | sailing | sailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ship | compound |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pole | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 holds | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 holds | nsubj |
| 16 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ship | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sails | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sails | amod |
| 19 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 holds | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pole | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the mainmast | the tallest important pole | of a sailing ship | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | present | a sailing ship | the big sails | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=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
The head of the house got work as a mainmast in a very fine ship.
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 head | nmod |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 mainmast | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mainmast | det |
| 10 | mainmast | mainmast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 fine | advmod |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ship | amod |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mainmast | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the head of the house | work | as a mainmast in a fine ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus as mainmast=Attribute |
Example 2
The sailors climbed the mainmast to fix the sail.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sailors | det |
| 2 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mainmast | det |
| 5 | mainmast | mainmast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fix | mark |
| 7 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 climbed | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sail | det |
| 9 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fix | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | the sailors | the mainmast | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mainmast=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fix | to-infinitive | the sailors not said here | the sail | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sail=Patient |
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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