Who acts: you, hands, Salmon, oily fish, chips, feathers · What happens: cover, contain, not trust, fix, be, float · To what, where: oily hands, lot, way, bike, oily fish, oily film
«oily» in the school dictionary: its 3 meanings for a pupil and its 8 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: oily in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Covered with oil or containing a lot of oil: «oily hands», «oily fish».
The tree, 13 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Covered
cover
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
root
root
2
with
with
ADP
_
3 oil
case
3
oil
oil
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Covered
obl
4
or
or
CCONJ
_
5 containing
cc
5
containing
contain
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
3 oil
conj
6
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
7 lot
det
7
lot
lot
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 containing
obj
8
of
of
ADP
_
9 oil
case
9
oil
oil
NOUN
Number=Sing
7 lot
nmod
10
:
:
PUNCT
_
13 hands
punct
11
«
«
PUNCT
_
13 hands
punct
12
oily
oily
ADJ
Degree=Pos
13 hands
amod
13
hands
hand
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Covered
obl
14
»
»
PUNCT
_
13 hands
punct
15
,
,
PUNCT
_
18 fish
punct
16
«
«
PUNCT
_
18 fish
punct
17
oily
oily
ADJ
Degree=Pos
18 fish
amod
18
fish
fish
NOUN
Number=Sing
13 hands
appos
19
»
»
PUNCT
_
18 fish
punct
20
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Covered
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
cover
participle
oily hands
with oil
vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with oil=Theme
2
contain
gerund
a lot of oil
vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lot=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.
Meaning 2
Like oil, smooth and greasy: «an oily liquid».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Like
like
ADP
_
2 oil
case
2
oil
oil
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 smooth
obl
3
,
,
PUNCT
_
2 oil
punct
4
smooth
smooth
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
5
and
and
CCONJ
_
6 greasy
cc
6
greasy
greasy
ADJ
Degree=Pos
4 smooth
conj
7
:
:
PUNCT
_
11 liquid
punct
8
«
«
PUNCT
_
11 liquid
punct
9
an
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
11 liquid
det
10
oily
oily
ADJ
Degree=Pos
11 liquid
amod
11
liquid
liquid
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 smooth
appos
12
»
»
PUNCT
_
11 liquid
punct
13
.
.
PUNCT
_
4 smooth
punct
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Meaning 3
Of a person: too polite and friendly in a way you do not trust.
The tree, 14 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bone=Patient with tooth=Instrument
3
eat out
present
He not said here
the oily marrow
vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marrow=Patient
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.