Who acts: person, I, We, Mum, chocolate, sailors · What happens: limit, have, be, amount, give out, fix · To what, where: amount, something, adjective, small amounts, it, sweets · Speech: someone speaks here
«rationed» in the school dictionary: its 3 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: rationed in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Past of «ration»: limited the amount of something each person could have, because there was not enough.
The tree, 17 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer amount=Patient
2
have
could
each person
vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3
be
past
there
vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4
amount
something
nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient
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
adjective Given out in fixed, limited amounts: «rationed food».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
adjective
adjective
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
2
Given
give
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
1 adjective
acl
3
out
out
ADP
_
2 Given
compound:prt
4
in
in
SCONJ
_
5 fixed
mark
5
fixed
fix
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
2 Given
advcl
6
,
,
PUNCT
_
8 amounts
punct
7
limited
limited
ADJ
Degree=Pos
8 amounts
amod
8
amounts
amount
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 adjective
conj
9
:
:
PUNCT
_
12 food
punct
10
«
«
PUNCT
_
12 food
punct
11
rationed
ration
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
12 food
amod
12
food
food
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 adjective
appos
13
»
»
PUNCT
_
12 food
punct
14
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 adjective
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
give out
participle
adjective and limited amounts not said here
vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2
fix
participle
vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3
rationin a quote
participle
vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
Meaning 3
Used carefully in small amounts to make it last: «I rationed my sweets.».
The tree, 13 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
2
run
past
supplies
low property
vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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.