retract

Who acts: you, cat, They, I · What happens: retract, be, say, agree, draw, not retract · To what, where: body, claws, bargain · Speech: someone speaks here

«retract» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: retract in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To retract is to take back something you have said or agreed to.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 retract	mark
2	retract	retract	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 take	conj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 take	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 something	acl:relcl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 agreed	cc
12	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	12 agreed	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	retract	to-infinitive			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present		take property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present · perfect	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	agree speech: agree	participle	you not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Meaning 2

To retract is to pull back into the body or case, as a cat draws in its claws.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 retract	mark
2	retract	retract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pull	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pull	mark
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 pull	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 body	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 body	det
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pull	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 case	cc
11	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 body	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 draws	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 draws	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 draws	nsubj
16	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 claws	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 claws	nmod:poss
19	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 draws	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	retract	to-infinitive				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present		the body or case	pull property	tree rules
3	draw	present	a cat	cat's claws		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in claw=Destination

Example 1

They could not retract the bargain.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 retract	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 retract	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 retract	advmod
4	retract	retract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bargain	det
6	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 retract	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 retract	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not retract	could	They	the bargain					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme

Example 2

I wish to retract what I said.

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 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 retract	mark
4	retract	retract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	xcomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 retract	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wish	present	I	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	retract not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	I	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Example 3

The cat can retract its claws.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 retract	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 retract	aux
4	retract	retract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 claws	nmod:poss
6	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 retract	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 retract	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retract	can	the cat	cat's claws					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=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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