scullion

Who acts: kitchen, cooks, scullion, He · What happens: scrub, do, run, stop, be, wring · To what, where: pots, dirtiest jobs, neck, head cook

«scullion» 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: scullion in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

A servant in a kitchen who scrubs pots and floors and does the dirtiest jobs.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 kitchen	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kitchen	det
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 servant	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 scrubs	nsubj
7	scrubs	scrub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kitchen	acl:relcl
8	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scrubs	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 floors	cc
10	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pots	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 does	cc
12	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scrubs	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 jobs	det
14	dirtiest	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 jobs	amod
15	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 does	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 servant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrub	present	a kitchen	pots and floors					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pot=Source
2	do	present	a kitchen not said here	the dirtiest jobs					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

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 cooks and scullions ran after the bird.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cooks	det
2	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 scullions	cc
4	scullions	scullion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cooks	conj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 bird	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the cooks and scullions				after the bird		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

The scullion stopped just as he was about to wring the bird's neck.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scullion	det
2	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	just	just	ADV	_	8 about	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 about	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 about	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	cop
8	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stopped	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 wring	mark
10	wring	wring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 about	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 neck	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 bird	case
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wring	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the scullion			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past	scullion		about property	tree rules
3	wring	to-infinitive	scullion not said here	the bird's neck		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient

Example 3

He began as an under-scullion and rose to be a head cook.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 scullion	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 scullion	det
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 scullion	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 under	punct
7	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rose	cc
9	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	14 cook	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 cook	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cook	det
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cook	compound
14	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rose	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	He		as a scullion	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	rise	past	He not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive	He not said here	a head cook		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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