Who acts: you, Dad, paintbrush · What happens: use, put, rinse, paint, have, dry · To what, where: brush, paint, paper, paintbrush, new colour, thin paintbrush
«paintbrush» 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: paintbrush in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A brush used for putting paint on paper, walls or other surfaces.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
A
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
2 brush
det
2
brush
brush
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
3
used
use
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
2 brush
acl
4
for
for
SCONJ
_
5 putting
mark
5
putting
put
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
3 used
advcl
6
paint
paint
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 putting
obj
7
on
on
ADP
_
8 paper
case
8
paper
paper
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 putting
obl
9
,
,
PUNCT
_
10 walls
punct
10
walls
wall
NOUN
Number=Plur
8 paper
conj
11
or
or
CCONJ
_
13 surfaces
cc
12
other
other
ADJ
Degree=Pos
13 surfaces
amod
13
surfaces
surface
NOUN
Number=Plur
10 walls
conj
14
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 brush
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
use
participle
a brush not said here
vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2
put
gerund
paint
paper and walls or other surfaces
vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paint=Theme on paper=Destination
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
Rinse your paintbrush before you use a new colour.
vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bristle=Patient
Example 5
Put the paintbrushes in the jar to dry.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Put
put
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
3 paintbrushes
det
3
paintbrushes
paintbrush
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Put
obj
4
in
in
ADP
_
6 jar
case
5
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
6 jar
det
6
jar
jar
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Put
obl
7
to
to
PART
_
8 dry
mark
8
dry
dry
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
1 Put
advcl
9
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Put
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
put
imperative
you not said here
the paintbrushes
the jar
vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paintbrush=Theme in jar=Destination
2
dry
to-infinitive
you not said here
vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
Example 6
Don't leave your paintbrush standing in the water pot.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Do
do
AUX
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
3 leave
aux
2
n't
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
3 leave
advmod
3
leave
leave
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
4
your
your
PRON
Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs
5 paintbrush
nmod:poss
5
paintbrush
paintbrush
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 leave
obj
6
standing
stand
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
5 paintbrush
acl
7
in
in
ADP
_
10 pot
case
8
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
10 pot
det
9
water
water
NOUN
Number=Sing
10 pot
compound
10
pot
pot
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 standing
obl
11
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 leave
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
notleave
imperative · do-support
you not said here
your paintbrush
vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paintbrush=Theme
2
stand
gerund
your paintbrush not said here
the water pot
vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pot=Location
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.