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powdery

Who acts: snow, Flour, wings, Chalk, powdery sand, Skiers · What happens: cover, be, leave, blow, love · To what, where: powdery mark, wind, powdery snow

«powdery» 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: powdery in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Like powder: fine, dry and soft.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 powder	case
2	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dry	punct
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fine	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 soft	cc
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fine	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Meaning 2

Covered with powder.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 powder	case
3	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Covered	obl
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Covered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						with powder	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with powder=Theme

Example 1

The snow was soft and powdery.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soft	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	cop
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 powdery	cc
6	powdery	powdery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soft	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 soft	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the snow					soft property	tree rules
2	be		the snow not said here						tree rules

Example 2

Flour is a powdery solid.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 solid	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 solid	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 solid	det
4	powdery	powdery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 solid	amod
5	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 solid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Flour					solid property	tree rules

Example 3

The moth's wings were powdery.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moth	det
2	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wings	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 moth	case
4	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 powdery	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 powdery	cop
6	powdery	powdery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 powdery	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the moth's wings					powdery property	tree rules

Example 4

Chalk leaves a powdery mark.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	nsubj
2	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mark	det
4	powdery	powdery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mark	amod
5	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leaves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	Chalk	a powdery mark					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme

Example 5

The powdery sand blew in the wind.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sand	det
2	powdery	powdery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sand	amod
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the powdery sand			the wind			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Example 6

Skiers love powdery snow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skiers	skier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	powdery	powdery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 love	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 love	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Skiers	powdery snow					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snow=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.

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