scoured
Who acts: Ralph, We · What happens: scour, mean, rub, search, lose · To what, where: part, floors, seas, garden · Speech: someone speaks here
«scoured» 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: scoured in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Scoured means rubbed hard until clean and shiny.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scoured | scour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | ccomp |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 rubbed | advmod |
| 5 | until | until | ADP | _ | 6 clean | case |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rubbed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shiny | cc |
| 8 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clean | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scour | participle | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | rub | participle | until clean | hard property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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
Scoured means searched every part of a place carefully.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scoured | scour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | ccomp |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 part | det |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 searched | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 9 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 8 place | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scour | participle | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | search | participle | every part of a place | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent part=Location |
Example 1
The floors were scoured and bright.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 floors | det |
| 2 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scoured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scoured | aux:pass |
| 4 | scoured | scour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bright | cc |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 scoured | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scoured | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scour | past · passive | the floors | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
Example 2
Ralph scoured the seas for ships.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 scoured | nsubj |
| 2 | scoured | scour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seas | det |
| 4 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scoured | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ships | case |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scoured | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scoured | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scour | past | Ralph | the seas | for ships | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Location for ship=Theme |
Example 3
We scoured the garden for my lost ring.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 scoured | nsubj |
| 2 | scoured | scour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 garden | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scoured | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ring | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ring | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ring | amod |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scoured | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scoured | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scour | past | We | the garden | for my lost ring | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent garden=Location for ring=Theme | |||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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