marten

Who acts: marten, weasel, martens · What happens: be, live, climb, build, laugh, answer · To what, where: small furry wild animal, woods, trees, nest, clayey bank

«marten» 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: marten in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A marten is a small furry wild animal, like a weasel, that lives in woods and climbs trees.

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 marten	det
2	marten	marten	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 animal	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 animal	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animal	amod
6	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animal	amod
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animal	amod
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weasel	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 weasel	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 weasel	det
12	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animal	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lives	punct
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lives	nsubj
15	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 weasel	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 woods	case
17	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lives	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 climbs	cc
19	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lives	conj
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 climbs	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 animal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	a marten	a small furry wild animal		tree rules
2	live	present	a weasel		woods	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
3	climb	present	a weasel not said here	trees		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=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

In the clayey bank the martens built their nest.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 bank	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bank	det
3	clayey	clayey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bank	amod
4	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 martens	det
6	martens	marten	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 built	nsubj
7	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nest	nmod:poss
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the martens	martens's nest		the clayey bank			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product

Example 2

The marten laughed and answered.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 marten	det
2	marten	marten	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 answered	cc
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the marten						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past	the marten not said here						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

Not long after, the marten came by looking for his supper.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 came	advmod
3	after	after	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 marten	det
6	marten	marten	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 looking	mark
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 supper	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 supper	nmod:poss
12	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the marten					long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	the marten not said here					for marten's supper	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for supper=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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