phial
Who acts: small glass bottle, She · What happens: hold, put, keep · To what, where: medicine, small phial, phials, pocket
«phial» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: phial in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A small glass bottle for holding liquid, often medicine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bottle | amod |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottle | compound |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 holding | mark |
| 6 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 bottle | acl |
| 7 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 holding | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 medicine | punct |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 medicine | advmod |
| 10 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottle | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bottle | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | a small glass bottle and medicine not said here | liquid property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Example 1
She put the medicine in a small phial.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 medicine | det |
| 4 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 phial | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 phial | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 phial | amod |
| 8 | phial | phial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | She | the medicine | a small phial | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme in phial=Destination |
Example 2
The phials of blood were kept in his pocket.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 phials | det |
| 2 | phials | phial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 blood | case |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 phials | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | aux:pass |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obl | ||
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | the phials of blood | his pocket | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pocket=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.
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