pasteboard

Who acts: Pasteboard, We, cover, floor · What happens: be, use, make · To what, where: card, box, pasteboard, stiff pasteboard

«pasteboard» 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: pasteboard in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Pasteboard is thick, stiff paper or card, like the card used for boxes.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thick	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thick	cop
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 paper	punct
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paper	amod
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thick	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 card	cc
8	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paper	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 card	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 card	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 card	det
12	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paper	conj
13	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 card	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 boxes	case
15	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 used	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pasteboard					thick property	tree rules
2	use	participle		the card not said here				for boxes	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

We made a box from pasteboard.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 pasteboard	case
6	pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	We	a box		pasteboard			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent box=Product from pasteboard=Material

Example 2

The cover of the book was stiff pasteboard.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cover	det
2	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pasteboard	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 book	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cover	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pasteboard	cop
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pasteboard	amod
8	pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pasteboard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the cover of the book	stiff pasteboard					tree rules

Example 3

The floor was as white and shiny as pasteboard.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 white	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 white	case
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shiny	cc
7	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 white	conj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 pasteboard	case
9	pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shiny	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 white	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the floor					white property	tree rules
2	be		the floor not said here					as pasteboard	tree rules

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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