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speedwell

Who acts: Tiny blue speedwell flowers, We, our, Speedwell flowers, bees, Germander speedwell · What happens: find, grow, walk, have, visit, be · To what, where: tiny bright blue flowers, grass, lawn, speedwell, nature walk, four petals

«speedwell» 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: speedwell in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A small wild plant with tiny bright blue flowers, often found in grass, lawns and hedges.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plant	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plant	amod
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plant	amod
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flowers	amod
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flowers	amod
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flowers	amod
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plant	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 found	advmod
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 flowers	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 grass	case
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lawns	punct
16	lawns	lawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grass	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hedges	cc
18	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grass	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	participle		tiny bright blue flowers not said here		grass and lawns and hedges		often property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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.

Example 1

Tiny blue speedwell flowers grew all over the lawn.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flowers	amod
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flowers	amod
3	speedwell	speedwell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flowers	compound
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 lawn	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 lawn	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lawn	det
9	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Tiny blue speedwell flowers			the lawn			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lawn=Location

Example 2

We found speedwell on our nature walk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	speedwell	speedwell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 walk	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 walk	nmod:poss
6	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	compound
7	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	We	speedwell		our nature walk			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speedwell=Topic
2	walk		our						nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

Speedwell flowers have four petals.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speedwell	Speedwell	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 flowers	compound
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 petals	nummod
5	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Speedwell flowers	four petals					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petal=Patient

Example 4

The bees visited the speedwell in the hedge.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bees	det
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visited	nsubj
3	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 speedwell	det
5	speedwell	speedwell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visited	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hedge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hedge	det
8	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visited	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 visited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	past	the bees	the speedwell		the hedge			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speedwell=Co-Agent

Example 5

Germander speedwell is a common British wildflower.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germander	germander	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speedwell	compound
2	speedwell	speedwell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wildflower	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wildflower	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wildflower	det
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wildflower	amod
6	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wildflower	amod
7	wildflower	wildflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wildflower	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Germander speedwell	a common British wildflower					tree rules

Example 6

Speedwell flowers close up when it rains.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speedwell	Speedwell	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 flowers	compound
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 close	nsubj
3	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 close	compound:prt
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 rains	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rains	nsubj
7	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 close	advcl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 close	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close up	present	Speedwell flowers						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	rain	present	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

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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