muskrat

Who acts: muskrat, small water animal, Rikki, snake killer, hungry muskrat · What happens: be, find, live, laugh, ask, kill · To what, where: small water animal, North America, rivers, muskrats, race

«muskrat» 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: muskrat in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A muskrat is a small water animal with thick brown fur, found in North America and Europe, which lives near rivers and ponds.

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 muskrat	det
2	muskrat	muskrat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 animal	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animal	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	compound
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 fur	case
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fur	amod
10	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fur	amod
11	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
13	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 animal	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 America	case
15	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 America	compound
16	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Europe	cc
18	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 America	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lives	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lives	nsubj
21	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	conj
22	near	near	ADP	_	23 rivers	case
23	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lives	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ponds	cc
25	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rivers	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 animal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a muskrat	a small water animal		with thick brown fur	tree rules
2	find	participle		a small water animal not said here	North America and Europe		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	live	present	a small water animal		rivers and ponds		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near river=Location

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 muskrat laughed at the snake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 muskrat	det
2	muskrat	muskrat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 snake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the muskrat					at the snake	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

Rikki scornfully asked if a snake-killer kills muskrats.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
2	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	_	3 asked	advmod
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 kills	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 killer	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 killer	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 snake	punct
8	killer	killer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kills	nsubj
9	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	ccomp
10	muskrats	muskrat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kills	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Rikki					scornfully property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill a condition, not said to happen	present	a snake killer	muskrats					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muskrat=Theme

Example 3

The hungry muskrat would not run the race.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 muskrat	det
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 muskrat	amod
3	muskrat	muskrat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 run	advmod
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 race	det
8	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not run	would	the hungry muskrat	the race					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory

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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