Who acts: planetesimal, that, scientists, many, Planets, asteroids · What happens: be, move, think, crash, stick together, build · To what, where: small solid lump, few metres, young star, planets, millions, leftover planetesimals · Speech: someone speaks here
«planetesimal» 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: planetesimal in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A planetesimal is a small solid lump of rock, dust or ice, from a few metres to a few kilometres across, that moved around a young star; scientists think many of them crashed and stuck together to build planets.
The tree, 39 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around star=Trajectory
3
thinkspeech: other
present
scientists
vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4
crash
past
many of scientists
vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5
stick together
past
many of scientists not said here
together property
tree rules
6
build
to-infinitive
many of scientists not said here
planets
vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset planet=Product
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
Planets formed from millions of planetesimals.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Planets
planet
NOUN
Number=Plur
2 formed
nsubj
2
formed
form
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part
root
root
3
from
from
ADP
_
4 millions
case
4
millions
million
NOUN
Number=Plur
2 formed
obl
5
of
of
ADP
_
6 planetesimals
case
6
planetesimals
planetesimal
NOUN
Number=Plur
4 millions
nmod
7
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 formed
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
form
participle
Planets
millions of planetesimals
vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
Example 2
A planetesimal is like a building block of a planet.
vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent planetesimal=Topic
2
learn
to-infinitive
Scientists not said here
vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3
form
past
Earth
vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
Example 6
Earth may have grown from planetesimals crashing together.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Earth
Earth
PROPN
Number=Sing
4 grown
nsubj
2
may
may
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
4 grown
aux
3
have
have
AUX
VerbForm=Inf
4 grown
aux
4
grown
grow
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part
root
root
5
from
from
ADP
_
6 planetesimals
case
6
planetesimals
planetesimal
NOUN
Number=Plur
4 grown
obl
7
crashing
crash
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
6 planetesimals
acl
8
together
together
ADV
_
7 crashing
advmod
9
.
.
PUNCT
_
4 grown
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
grow
may · perfect
Earth
from planetesimals
vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from planetesimal=Patient
2
crash
gerund
planetesimals not said here
together property
vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
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.