skirl

Who acts: pipes, boy, skirl · What happens: make, give, let out, skirl · To what, where: cry, loud skirl, skirl, giant jump, gulls, harbour

«skirl» 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: skirl in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A loud, shrill cry or high sound, such as the sound of bagpipes; to make such a cry.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cry	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cry	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 loud	punct
4	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cry	amod
5	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 sound	cc
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sound	amod
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cry	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sound	punct
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	13 sound	case
11	as	as	ADP	_	10 such	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sound	det
13	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cry	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 bagpipes	case
15	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sound	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 cry	parataxis
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 cry	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cry	det
21	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		such cry					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cry=Product

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 pipes gave a loud skirl.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pipes	det
2	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 skirl	det
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skirl	amod
6	skirl	skirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the pipes	a loud skirl					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skirl=Theme

Example 2

The boy let out a skirl that made the giant jump.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 let	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 skirl	det
6	skirl	skirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 skirl	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jump	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 jump	amod
11	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	past	the boy	a skirl					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skirl=Theme
2	make	past	a skirl	the giant jump					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jump=Product

Example 3

The gulls skirled over the harbour.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gulls	det
2	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	skirled	skirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gulls	acl
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 harbour	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 harbour	det
6	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skirled	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gulls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skirl	participle		the gulls not said here		the harbour			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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