Who acts: police, Shoplifting, sign, Shops, prices, friend · What happens: steal, hide, leave, pay, take, be · To what, where: things, shop, crime, He, chocolate bar, Shoplifters · Speech: someone speaks here
«shoplifting» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 6 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: shoplifting in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Stealing things from a shop by hiding them and leaving without paying.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Stealing
steal
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
2
things
thing
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Stealing
obj
3
from
from
ADP
_
5 shop
case
4
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
5 shop
det
5
shop
shop
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Stealing
obl
6
by
by
SCONJ
_
7 hiding
mark
7
hiding
hide
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
1 Stealing
advcl
8
them
they
PRON
Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs
7 hiding
obj
9
and
and
CCONJ
_
10 leaving
cc
10
leaving
leave
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
7 hiding
conj
11
without
without
SCONJ
_
12 paying
mark
12
paying
pay
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
10 leaving
advcl
13
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Stealing
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
steal
gerund
things
a shop
vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from shop=Source
2
hide
gerund
things = thing
vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3
leave
gerund
vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4
pay
gerund
vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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.
vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2
try
to-infinitive
Jack's friend not said here
shoplifting
vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoplifting=Eventuality
3
sayspeech: assert
past
friend
no.
vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic
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.