marksman

Who acts: marksman, person · What happens: be, hit, wear · To what, where: person, target, best marksman, canton, number, garland

«marksman» 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: marksman in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A marksman is a person who is very good at hitting a target with a gun or bow.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 marksman	det
2	marksman	marksman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 good	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 good	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 good	advmod
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	acl:relcl
10	at	at	SCONJ	_	11 hitting	mark
11	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 good	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 target	det
13	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hitting	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 gun	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 gun	det
16	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hitting	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 bow	cc
18	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gun	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a marksman	a person		tree rules
2	is	present	a person		good property	tree rules
3	hit	gerund	a person not said here	a target	with a gun or bow	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent target=Patient with gun=Instrument

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

Who was the best marksman in the canton?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 marksman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 marksman	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 marksman	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 marksman	amod
5	marksman	marksman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 canton	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 canton	det
8	canton	canton	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marksman	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 marksman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the best marksman		the canton			tree rules

Example 2

Each marksman wore the number of his hits in a garland round his hat.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 marksman	det
2	marksman	marksman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	nsubj
3	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 number	det
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 hits	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hits	nmod:poss
8	hits	hit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 number	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 garland	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 garland	det
11	garland	garland	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	obl
12	round	round	ADP	_	14 hat	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hat	nmod:poss
14	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	each marksman	the number of marksman's hits		a garland		round marksman's hat	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent number=Source
2	hit		marksman						nom hit «act transitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

The marksman hit the bull's-eye every time.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 marksman	det
2	marksman	marksman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
5	bull's	bull's	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eye	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bull's	punct
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl:unmarked
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	the marksman	the bull's eye			time		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Co-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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