Who acts: you, grandad, he, dentist, patient fisherman, She · What happens: wait, get, keep, try, explain, give up · To what, where: person, turn, chess, me, three patients, temperature
«patient» 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: patient in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Able to wait calmly without getting cross or upset.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Able
able
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
2
to
to
PART
_
3 wait
mark
3
wait
wait
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
1 Able
xcomp
4
calmly
calmly
ADV
_
3 wait
advmod
5
without
without
SCONJ
_
6 getting
mark
6
getting
get
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
3 wait
advcl
7
cross
cross
ADJ
Degree=Pos
6 getting
xcomp
8
or
or
CCONJ
_
9 upset
cc
9
upset
upset
ADJ
Degree=Pos
7 cross
conj
10
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Able
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
wait
to-infinitive
calmly property
vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2
get
gerund
cross property
vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
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
Able to keep trying or keep explaining without giving up.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Able
able
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
2
to
to
PART
_
3 keep
mark
3
keep
keep
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
1 Able
xcomp
4
trying
try
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
3 keep
xcomp
5
or
or
CCONJ
_
6 keep
cc
6
keep
keep
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
3 keep
conj
7
explaining
explain
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
6 keep
xcomp
8
without
without
SCONJ
_
9 giving
mark
9
giving
give
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
6 keep
advcl
10
up
up
ADP
_
9 giving
compound:prt
11
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Able
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
keep
to-infinitive
tree rules
2
try
gerund
vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3
keep
infinitive
tree rules
4
explainspeech: assert
gerund
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5
give up
gerund
vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
Meaning 3
As a noun, a person who is being looked after by a doctor, nurse or dentist.
The tree, 16 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
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.