Who acts: saucepan, you, Mum, water, We, she · What happens: be, use, put, turn, heat, not touch · To what, where: deep round cooking pot, top, eggs, saucepan, saucepan handle, soup
«saucepan» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 7 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: saucepan in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A saucepan is a deep, round metal cooking pot with a long handle and often a lid, used on top of a cooker for boiling and heating food.
The tree, 28 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
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
Put the eggs in a saucepan of water.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Put
put
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
3 eggs
det
3
eggs
egg
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Put
obj
4
in
in
ADP
_
6 saucepan
case
5
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
6 saucepan
det
6
saucepan
saucepan
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Put
obl
7
of
of
ADP
_
8 water
case
8
water
water
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 saucepan
nmod
9
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Put
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
put
imperative
you not said here
the eggs
a saucepan of water
vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in saucepan=Destination
Example 2
Turn the saucepan handle away from the edge of the cooker.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Turn
turn
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
4 handle
det
3
saucepan
saucepan
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 handle
compound
4
handle
handle
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Turn
obj
5
away
away
ADV
_
1 Turn
advmod
6
from
from
ADP
_
8 edge
case
7
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
8 edge
det
8
edge
edge
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 away
obl
9
of
of
ADP
_
11 cooker
case
10
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
11 cooker
det
11
cooker
cooker
NOUN
Number=Sing
8 edge
nmod
12
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Turn
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
turn
imperative
you not said here
the saucepan handle
away property
vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent handle=Theme
vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient
3
scrape
past
she not said here
the saucepans
vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucepan=Patient
4
do
past
she not said here
all dirty work
vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
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.