Who acts: something, I, flowers, Grapes, fingers, leaves · What happens: become, wrinkle, lack, make, do, feel · To what, where: heat, water, something, this, raisins, bath
«shrivel» in the school dictionary: its 3 meanings 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: shrivel in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To become smaller, dry and wrinkled, often because of heat, cold or lack of water.
The tree, 15 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 become
mark
2
become
become
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
smaller
small
ADJ
Degree=Cmp
2 become
xcomp
4
,
,
PUNCT
_
5 dry
punct
5
dry
dry
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 smaller
parataxis
6
and
and
CCONJ
_
7 wrinkled
cc
7
wrinkled
wrinkle
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
5 dry
conj
8
,
,
PUNCT
_
12 heat
punct
9
often
often
ADV
_
12 heat
advmod
10
because
because
ADP
ExtPos=ADP
12 heat
case
11
of
of
ADP
_
10 because
fixed
12
heat
heat
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 become
xcomp
13
,
,
PUNCT
_
14 cold
punct
14
cold
cold
NOUN
Number=Sing
12 heat
conj
15
or
or
CCONJ
_
16 lack
cc
16
lack
lack
NOUN
Number=Sing
12 heat
conj
17
of
of
ADP
_
18 water
case
18
water
water
NOUN
Number=Sing
16 lack
nmod
19
.
.
PUNCT
_
12 heat
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
become
to-infinitive
heat and cold or lack of water
small property
vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2
wrinkle
participle
vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3
lack
water
nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient
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 make something do this.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 make
mark
2
make
make
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
something
something
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
2 make
obj
4
do
do
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
2 make
xcomp
5
this
this
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Dem
4 do
obj
6
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 make
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
make
to-infinitive
something
tree rules
2
do
infinitive
something not said here
this
vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
Meaning 3
Usage: figurative — kept apart, not parsed.
To feel very small or ashamed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 feel
mark
2
feel
feel
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
very
very
ADV
_
4 small
advmod
4
small
small
ADJ
Degree=Pos
2 feel
xcomp
5
or
or
CCONJ
_
6 ashamed
cc
6
ashamed
ashamed
ADJ
Degree=Pos
4 small
conj
7
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 feel
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
feel
to-infinitive
small property
vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
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.