Who acts: nail, frog, branch, Protruding rocks, wallet, fish · What happens: stick out, protrude, be, have, make, catch · To what, where: nail, surface, wall, teeth, rest, plank
«protruding» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 7 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: protruding in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Sticking out from a surface or edge: «a nail protruding from the wall», «protruding teeth».
The tree, 15 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Sticking
stick
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
2
out
out
ADP
_
1 Sticking
compound:prt
3
from
from
ADP
_
5 surface
case
4
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
5 surface
det
5
surface
surface
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Sticking
obl
6
or
or
CCONJ
_
7 edge
cc
7
edge
edge
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 surface
conj
8
:
:
PUNCT
_
11 nail
punct
9
«
«
PUNCT
_
11 nail
punct
10
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
11 nail
det
11
nail
nail
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Sticking
obl
12
protruding
protrude
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
11 nail
acl
13
from
from
ADP
_
15 wall
case
14
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
15 wall
det
15
wall
wall
NOUN
Number=Sing
12 protruding
obl
16
»
»
PUNCT
_
11 nail
punct
17
,
,
PUNCT
_
19 protruding
punct
18
«
«
PUNCT
_
19 protruding
punct
19
protruding
protrude
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
1 Sticking
conj
20
teeth
tooth
NOUN
Number=Plur
19 protruding
obj
21
»
»
PUNCT
_
19 protruding
punct
22
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Sticking
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
stick out
gerund
a nail
a surface or edge
vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2
protrudein a quote
gerund
a nail not said here
the wall
vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3
protrudein a quote
gerund
teeth
vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tooth=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.
Meaning 2
Usage: verb — kept apart, not parsed.
Sticking out beyond the rest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Sticking
stick
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
2
out
out
ADP
_
1 Sticking
compound:prt
3
beyond
beyond
ADP
_
5 rest
case
4
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
5 rest
det
5
rest
rest
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Sticking
obl
6
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Sticking
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
stick out
gerund
the rest
vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme beyond rest=Destination
Example 1
Careful, there's a nail protruding from that plank.
vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chin=Location
2
protrude
gerund
vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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.