recognize
Who acts: you, I, She · What happens: know, see, hear, meet, recognize · To what, where: someone, it, face, school photo, voice, tune
«recognize» 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: recognize in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To know someone or something again because you have seen, heard or met it before.
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 know | mark |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 something | cc |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 someone | conj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 know | advmod |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 know | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | parataxis |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 met | cc |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 met | obj |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 met | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | to-infinitive | someone | again | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | meet | past | it | before property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-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.
Example 1
I recognize your face from the school photo.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 recognize | nsubj |
| 2 | recognize | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recognize | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 photo | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 photo | det |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 photo | compound |
| 8 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recognize | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 recognize | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | present | I | your face | the school photo | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
Example 2
She recognized her brother's voice at once.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 recognized | nsubj |
| 2 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 voice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 brother | case |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recognized | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 recognized | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 recognized | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | past | She | her brother's voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
Example 3
Can you recognize the tune?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 recognize | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 recognize | nsubj |
| 3 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tune | det |
| 5 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recognize | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 recognize | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | can | you | the tune | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tune=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recognize/