malt
Who acts: cat · What happens: be, soak, dry, treat, use, make · To what, where: Malt barley, other grain, grain, beer, malt house, malt
«malt» 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: malt in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Malt is barley or other grain that has been soaked, dried and treated so that it can be used to make beer or whisky.
The tree, 24 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 barley | compound |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 barley | cop |
| 3 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 grain | cc |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grain | amod |
| 6 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 barley | conj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 soaked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 soaked | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 soaked | aux:pass |
| 10 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 grain | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dried | punct |
| 12 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 soaked | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 treated | cc |
| 14 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 soaked | conj |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 used | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 used | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 used | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 used | aux:pass |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 treated | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 used | advcl |
| 23 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 whisky | cc |
| 25 | whisky | whisky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beer | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 barley | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Malt barley or other grain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | soak | present · perfect · passive | other grain | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | |||||
| 3 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | treat | participle | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | use | can · passive | grain | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | beer or whisky | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beer=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 cat and the mouse played in the malt-house.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mouse | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouse | det |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cat | conj |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 9 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 malt | punct |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 played | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the cat and the mouse | the malt house | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Example 2
Beer is brewed from malt and hops.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brewed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brewed | aux:pass |
| 3 | brewed | brew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 malt | case |
| 5 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brewed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hops | cc |
| 7 | hops | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brewed | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brewed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brew | present · passive | Beer | malt | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product from malt=Material | ||||
| 2 | hop | present | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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