moorland
Who acts: Moorland, Sheep, path, Snow · What happens: be, cover, graze, cross · To what, where: wide open high land, moorland
«moorland» 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: moorland in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Moorland is wide open high land covered with heather and rough grass, often wet and bare.
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moorland | moorland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 land | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 land | cop |
| 3 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 land | amod |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 land | amod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 land | amod |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 land | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heather | case |
| 9 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grass | cc |
| 11 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grass | amod |
| 12 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heather | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wet | punct |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 wet | advmod |
| 15 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 land | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bare | cc |
| 17 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wet | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 land | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Moorland | wide open high land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | wide open high land not said here | with heather and rough grass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with heather=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
Sheep graze on the moorland.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 graze | nsubj |
| 2 | graze | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 moorland | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moorland | det |
| 5 | moorland | moorland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 graze | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 graze | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | graze | present | Sheep | on the moorland | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on moorland=Patient |
Example 2
The path crossed the moorland in thick mist.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 path | det |
| 2 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moorland | det |
| 5 | moorland | moorland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mist | case |
| 7 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mist | amod |
| 8 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | the path | the moorland | in thick mist | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent moorland=Patient in mist=Topic |
Example 3
Snow covered the moorland all winter.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 covered | nsubj |
| 2 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moorland | det |
| 4 | moorland | moorland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 covered | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 winter | det |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 covered | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 covered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | Snow | the moorland | winter | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moorland=Destination |
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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