Who acts: skylight, roof, We, cat, Snow · What happens: be, let, drum, see, climb out, save · To what, where: window, roof, daylight, Rain, light, attic
«skylight» in the school dictionary: its meaning 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: skylight in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A skylight is a window in a roof or ceiling that lets daylight in from above.
The tree, 16 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daylight=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.
Example 1
Rain drummed on the skylight.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Rain
rain
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
2
drummed
drum
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
1 Rain
acl
3
on
on
ADP
_
5 skylight
case
4
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
5 skylight
det
5
skylight
skylight
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 drummed
obl
6
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Rain
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
drum
participle
Rain not said here
on the skylight
vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on skylight=Patient
vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme
Example 6
Snow covered the skylight.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Snow
snow
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 covered
nsubj
2
covered
cover
VERB
Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
4 skylight
det
4
skylight
skylight
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 covered
obj
5
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 covered
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
cover
past
Snow
the skylight
vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skylight=Destination
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.