reconnoitre

Who acts: scouts, we, you, me · What happens: go, look, do, find out, be, reconnoitre · To what, where: anything, valley, cave, me, spaniels, snowy hill · Speech: someone speaks here

«reconnoitre» 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: reconnoitre in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To go and look carefully at an area before doing anything, to find out what is there.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 look	cc
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 look	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 area	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 area	det
8	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 doing	mark
10	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 look	advcl
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 doing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 find	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 look	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 find	compound:prt
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 there	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 there	cop
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 find	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	infinitive		at a area; carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at area=Theme
3	do	gerund	anything		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
4	find out	to-infinitive			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is	present		there property	tree rules

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

The scouts went ahead to reconnoitre the valley.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scouts	det
2	scouts	scout	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 reconnoitre	mark
6	reconnoitre	reconnoitre	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 valley	det
8	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reconnoitre	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the scouts					ahead property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	reconnoitre	to-infinitive	the scouts not said here	the valley					tree rules

Example 2

Before we enter the cave, let me reconnoitre.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 enter	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 enter	nsubj
3	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 let	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cave	det
5	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enter	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 enter	punct
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	reconnoitre	reconnoitre	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	enter	present	we	the cave	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination
2	let	imperative	you not said here	me	tree rules
3	reconnoitre	infinitive	me not said here		tree rules

Example 3

The spaniels were sent out to reconnoitre the snowy hill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spaniels	det
2	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 sent	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 reconnoitre	mark
7	reconnoitre	reconnoitre	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
9	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hill	amod
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reconnoitre	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	past · passive		the spaniels					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	reconnoitre	to-infinitive		the snowy hill					tree rules

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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