menthol
Who acts: Menthol, substance, throat, Cough sweets, chest rub, toothpaste · What happens: be, give, make, feel, contain, smell · To what, where: substance, mint oil, cool fresh feeling, throat, menthol, mint plants
«menthol» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 6 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: menthol in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Menthol is a substance from mint oil that gives a cool, fresh feeling and smell.
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Menthol | menthol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 substance | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 substance | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 substance | det |
| 4 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 oil | case |
| 6 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 oil | compound |
| 7 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 substance | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gives | nsubj |
| 9 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 substance | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 feeling | det |
| 11 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feeling | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cool | punct |
| 13 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feeling | amod |
| 14 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 smell | cc |
| 16 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feeling | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 substance | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Menthol | a substance | mint oil | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | present | a substance | a cool fresh feeling and smell | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=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
Menthol makes my throat feel cool.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Menthol | menthol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 throat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Menthol | my throat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | my throat not said here | cool property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Example 2
Cough sweets often contain menthol.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cough | cough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sweets | compound |
| 2 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contain | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 contain | advmod |
| 4 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | menthol | menthol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contain | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | Cough sweets | menthol | often property | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot menthol=Theme |
Example 3
The chest rub smells strongly of menthol.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rub | det |
| 2 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rub | compound |
| 3 | rub | rub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smells | nsubj |
| 4 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 4 smells | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 menthol | case |
| 7 | menthol | menthol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smells | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | present | the chest rub | of menthol; strongly property | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of menthol=Theme |
Example 4
Menthol comes from mint plants.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Menthol | menthol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 plants | case |
| 4 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plants | compound |
| 5 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Menthol | mint plants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from plant=Initial_Location |
Example 5
This toothpaste has menthol in it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 toothpaste | det |
| 2 | toothpaste | toothpaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | menthol | menthol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this toothpaste | menthol | menthol | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent menthol=Patient |
Example 6
Menthol tricks your skin into feeling cold.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Menthol | menthol | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tricks | amod |
| 2 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 skin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tricks | nmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 feeling | case |
| 6 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cold | obl |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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