ravenous
Who acts: you, we, He, wolf · What happens: eat, be, look · To what, where: great deal, two bowls
«ravenous» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 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: ravenous in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Very, very hungry, so hungry that you could eat a great deal.
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 hungry | advmod |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hungry | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 eat | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 eat | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 eat | aux |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hungry | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deal | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deal | amod |
| 14 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eat | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | could | you | a great deal | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=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.
Example 1
After the long walk we were ravenous.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 walk | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 walk | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 walk | amod |
| 4 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ravenous | obl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ravenous | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ravenous | cop |
| 7 | ravenous | ravenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ravenous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | we | after the long walk | ravenous property | tree rules |
Example 2
He was ravenous and ate two bowls of soup.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ravenous | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ravenous | cop |
| 3 | ravenous | ravenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ate | cc |
| 5 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ravenous | conj |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 bowls | nummod |
| 7 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ate | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 soup | case |
| 9 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bowls | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ravenous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | ravenous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | He not said here | two bowls of soup | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient |
Example 3
The wolf was ravenous and looked for food.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ravenous | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ravenous | cop |
| 4 | ravenous | ravenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ravenous | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ravenous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wolf | ravenous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the wolf not said here | for food | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=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.
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