platter

Who acts: platter, large flat dish, She, land · What happens: be, serve, carry · To what, where: large flat dish, food, anything, platter, fish, silver platter

«platter» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: platter in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A platter is a large, flat dish for serving food.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 platter	det
2	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dish	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dish	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dish	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dish	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 large	punct
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dish	amod
8	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 serving	mark
10	serving	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 dish	acl
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 serving	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a platter	a large flat dish					tree rules
2	serve	gerund	a large flat dish not said here	food					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Attribute

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

A platter can be anything wide, flat and smooth, like a flat dish.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 platter	det
2	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anything	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 anything	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 anything	cop
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 anything	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flat	punct
8	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wide	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 smooth	cc
10	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wide	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dish	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 dish	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dish	det
14	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dish	amod
15	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anything	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 anything	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	a platter	anything					tree rules

Example 1

She carried a platter of cakes.

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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 platter	det
4	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cakes	case
6	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 platter	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	She	a platter of cakes					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent platter=Theme

Example 2

The fish was served on a silver platter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 served	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 served	aux:pass
4	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 platter	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 platter	det
7	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 platter	amod
8	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 served	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 served	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past · passive		the fish		a silver platter			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

Example 3

The land was as flat as a platter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flat	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flat	cop
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 flat	advmod
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 platter	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 platter	det
8	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flat	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the land					as a platter; flat property	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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