Who acts: pneumatophore, that, tree, Pneumatophores, Mangrove trees, we · What happens: be, stick up, take in, poke up, breathe, see · To what, where: special root, mud, air, pneumatophores, hundreds, low tide
«pneumatophore» 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: pneumatophore in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A pneumatophore is a special root of a mangrove tree that sticks up out of the mud or water like a pencil, so the tree can take in air.
The tree, 29 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out mud=Destination
3
take in
can
the tree
air
vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=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.
vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among pneumatophore=Location
Example 6
Without pneumatophores, mangrove roots could not get air in the mud.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Without
without
ADP
_
2 pneumatophores
case
2
pneumatophores
pneumatophore
NOUN
Number=Plur
8 get
obl
3
,
,
PUNCT
_
2 pneumatophores
punct
4
mangrove
mangrove
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 roots
compound
5
roots
root
NOUN
Number=Plur
8 get
nsubj
6
could
could
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
8 get
aux
7
not
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
8 get
advmod
8
get
get
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
9
air
air
NOUN
Number=Sing
8 get
obj
10
in
in
ADP
_
12 mud
case
11
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
12 mud
det
12
mud
mud
NOUN
Number=Sing
8 get
obl
13
.
.
PUNCT
_
8 get
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
notget
could
mangrove roots
air
the mud
without pneumatophores
vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus
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.