sprig

Who acts: sprig, He, She · What happens: be, wave, pluck, smell · To what, where: small twig, sprig

«sprig» 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: sprig in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A sprig is a small twig or shoot with leaves or flowers on it.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sprig	det
2	sprig	sprig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twig	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 twig	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 twig	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 twig	amod
6	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 shoot	cc
8	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twig	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 leaves	case
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shoot	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 flowers	cc
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 leaves	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flowers	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 twig	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a sprig	a small twig or shoot with leaves or flowers on shoot					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

He was waving a sprig of the sacred tulsi plant.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waving	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waving	aux
3	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sprig	det
5	sprig	sprig	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waving	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 plant	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plant	det
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plant	amod
9	tulsi	tulsi	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plant	compound
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprig	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past · progressive	He	a sprig of the sacred tulsi plant					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprig=Patient

Example 2

She plucked a sprig of sweet-smelling rosemary.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 plucked	nsubj
2	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sprig	det
4	sprig	sprig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plucked	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 rosemary	case
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rosemary	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sweet	punct
8	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 rosemary	amod
9	rosemary	rosemary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprig	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 plucked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pluck	past	She	a sprig of sweet smelling rosemary					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprig=Patient
2	smell	gerund							vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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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