Who acts: spider, small animal, Spiders, group, Most spiders, few · What happens: be, spin, catch, not be, belong, call · To what, where: small animal, webs, insects, arachnids, dangerous bite, 8 legs · Speech: someone speaks here
«spider» in the school dictionary: its 3 meanings for a pupil and its 9 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: spider in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A spider is a small animal with 8 legs that spins webs of silk to catch insects.
The tree, 17 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent web=Theme
3
catch
to-infinitive
a small animal not said here
insects
vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=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.
Meaning 2
Spiders are not insects; they belong to a group called arachnids.
vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location spout=Theme
Example 8
In Australia, do not touch a redback spider.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
In
in
ADP
_
2 Australia
case
2
Australia
Australia
PROPN
Number=Sing
6 touch
obl
3
,
,
PUNCT
_
2 Australia
punct
4
do
do
AUX
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
6 touch
aux
5
not
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
6 touch
advmod
6
touch
touch
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
7
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
9 spider
det
8
redback
redback
NOUN
Number=Sing
9 spider
compound
9
spider
spider
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 touch
obj
10
.
.
PUNCT
_
6 touch
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
nottouch
imperative · do-support
you not said here
a redback spider
Australia
vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spider=Co-Theme
Example 9
"Good father Spider! please not to kill me.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
"
"
PUNCT
_
4 Spider
punct
2
Good
good
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 father
amod
3
father
father
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 Spider
compound
4
Spider
Spider
PROPN
Number=Sing
9 kill
nsubj
5
!
!
PUNCT
_
4 Spider
punct
6
please
please
INTJ
_
9 kill
discourse
7
not
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
9 kill
advmod
8
to
to
PART
_
9 kill
mark
9
kill
kill
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
10
me
I
PRON
Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs
9 kill
obj
11
.
.
PUNCT
_
9 kill
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
notkillin a quote
to-infinitive
father Spider
me
vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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.