Who acts: Pollock, Jackson Pollock, Fishermen, We, paintings · What happens: eat, be, drip, splash, make, catch · To what, where: cod, surname, American painter, paint, large canvases, fish fingers
«pollock» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: pollock in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A sea fish of the North Atlantic, related to the cod, often eaten as fish fingers or fish and chips.
The tree, 20 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
A
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
3 fish
det
2
sea
sea
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 fish
compound
3
fish
fish
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
4
of
of
ADP
_
7 Atlantic
case
5
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
7 Atlantic
det
6
North
North
PROPN
Number=Sing
7 Atlantic
compound
7
Atlantic
Atlantic
PROPN
Number=Sing
3 fish
nmod
8
,
,
PUNCT
_
9 related
punct
9
related
related
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 fish
amod
10
to
to
ADP
_
12 cod
case
11
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
12 cod
det
12
cod
cod
NOUN
Number=Sing
9 related
obl
13
,
,
PUNCT
_
15 eaten
punct
14
often
often
ADV
_
15 eaten
advmod
15
eaten
eat
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
12 cod
acl
16
as
as
ADP
_
18 fingers
case
17
fish
fish
NOUN
Number=Sing
18 fingers
compound
18
fingers
finger
NOUN
Number=Plur
15 eaten
obl
19
or
or
CCONJ
_
20 fish
cc
20
fish
fish
NOUN
Number=Plur
18 fingers
conj
21
and
and
CCONJ
_
22 chips
cc
22
chips
chip
NOUN
Number=Plur
18 fingers
conj
23
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 fish
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
eat
participle
the cod not said here
as fish fingers or fish and chips; often property
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.
Meaning 2
Usage: a name — kept apart, not parsed.
Pollock is a surname; Jackson Pollock was an American painter famous for dripping and splashing paint on large canvases.
The tree, 19 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2
plan
past
Pollock
paintings = painting
carefully property
vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
Example 6
Mum grilled pollock with lemon for tea.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Mum
mum
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 pollock
nsubj
2
grilled
grill
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
3 pollock
amod
3
pollock
pollock
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
4
with
with
ADP
_
5 lemon
case
5
lemon
lemon
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 pollock
nmod
6
for
for
ADP
_
7 tea
case
7
tea
tea
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 lemon
nmod
8
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 pollock
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
grill
participle
vn cooking-45.3 «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.