Who acts: side, they, you, We, two countries, class · What happens: talk, reach, give, negotiate, get, agree · To what, where: agreement, little, deal, something, later bedtime, steep path
«negotiate» in the school dictionary: its 3 meanings for a pupil and its 7 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: negotiate in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To talk with others to reach an agreement, often each side giving a little: negotiate a deal.
The tree, 17 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 talk
mark
2
talk
talk
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
with
with
ADP
_
4 others
case
4
others
other
NOUN
Number=Plur
2 talk
obl
5
to
to
PART
_
6 reach
mark
6
reach
reach
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
2 talk
advcl
7
an
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
8 agreement
det
8
agreement
agreement
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 reach
obj
9
,
,
PUNCT
_
12 side
punct
10
often
often
ADV
_
12 side
advmod
11
each
each
DET
PronType=Tot
12 side
det
12
side
side
NOUN
Number=Sing
8 agreement
conj
13
giving
give
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
12 side
acl
14
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
15 little
det
15
little
little
ADJ
Degree=Pos
13 giving
obj
16
:
:
PUNCT
_
17 negotiate
punct
17
negotiate
negotiate
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
2 talk
conj
18
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
19 deal
det
19
deal
deal
NOUN
Number=Sing
17 negotiate
obj
20
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 talk
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
talk
to-infinitive
with others
vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with other=Co-Agent
2
reach
to-infinitive
a agreement and each side
vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent agreement=Theme
3
give
gerund
each side not said here
a little
vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
4
negotiate
infinitive
a deal
tree rules
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.
Meaning 2
To get something by talking and agreeing: they negotiated a later bedtime.
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.