plaice

Who acts: plaice, We, fisherman · What happens: be, eat, have, catch, lie · To what, where: flat sea fish, plaice, three plaice, sea floor

«plaice» 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: plaice in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A plaice is a flat sea fish with brown skin and orange spots, eaten as food.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plaice	det
2	plaice	plaice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fish	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 skin	case
9	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 skin	amod
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spots	cc
12	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spots	amod
13	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 skin	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eaten	punct
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fish	acl
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 food	case
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eaten	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a plaice	a flat sea fish				with brown skin and orange spots	tree rules
2	eat	participle		a flat sea fish not said here				as food	vn eat-39.1-1 «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 had plaice and chips for lunch.

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plaice	plaice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 chips	cc
5	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plaice	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 lunch	case
7	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chips	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	We	plaice and chips for lunch					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plaice=Patient

Example 2

The fisherman caught three plaice.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 plaice	nummod
5	plaice	plaice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the fisherman	three plaice					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plaice=Theme

Example 3

Plaice lie flat on the sea floor.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plaice	plaice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lie	nsubj
2	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flat	flat	ADV	_	2 lie	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floor	compound
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lie	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	Plaice			the sea floor		flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=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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