Who acts: you, app, message, letter, bank · What happens: tell, notify, go, be, arrive, close · To what, where: someone, school, police, office, you, We · Speech: someone speaks here
«notify» 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: notify in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To officially tell someone about something, often in writing (notify the school, notify the police).
The tree, 15 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
3 tell
mark
2
officially
officially
ADV
_
3 tell
advmod
3
tell
tell
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
4
someone
someone
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
3 tell
iobj
5
about
about
ADP
_
6 something
case
6
something
something
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
3 tell
obl
7
,
,
PUNCT
_
10 writing
punct
8
often
often
ADV
_
10 writing
advmod
9
in
in
ADP
_
10 writing
case
10
writing
writing
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 something
nmod
11
(
(
PUNCT
_
12 notify
punct
12
notify
notify
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
3 tell
parataxis
13
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
14 school
det
14
school
school
NOUN
Number=Sing
12 notify
obj
15
,
,
PUNCT
_
16 notify
punct
16
notify
notify
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
12 notify
conj
17
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
18 police
det
18
police
police
NOUN
Number=Plur
16 notify
obj
19
)
)
PUNCT
_
12 notify
punct
20
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 tell
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
tellspeech: assert
to-infinitive
someone
about something; officially property
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient about something=Topic
2
notifyspeech: other
infinitive
the school
vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Recipient
3
notifyspeech: other
infinitive
the police
vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient
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
Please notify the office if you are going to be absent.
vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient about payment=Topic
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.