sprat

Who acts: sprat, I, dolphins · What happens: be, have, say, talk · To what, where: small sea fish, many sprats, another · Speech: someone speaks here

«sprat» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: sprat in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A sprat is a small sea fish, like a herring but smaller.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sprat	det
2	sprat	sprat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fish	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 herring	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 herring	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 herring	det
11	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	parataxis
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 smaller	cc
13	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 herring	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a sprat	a small sea fish					tree rules

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

«I have many sprats,» said another.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sprats	amod
5	sprats	sprat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 said	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	I	many sprats					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprat=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past		another					tree rules

Example 2

The dolphins and the whales talked about the sprat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dolphins	det
2	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talked	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 whales	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whales	det
5	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dolphins	conj
6	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 sprat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sprat	det
9	sprat	sprat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the dolphins and the whales					about the sprat	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about sprat=Topic

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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