Who acts: Cheaper, Dad, I, We, salmon steak, Nan · What happens: cook, grill, fry, slice, chop, use · To what, where: good meat, fish, beef, pies, steaks, steak
«steak» in the school dictionary: its 3 meanings for a pupil and its 8 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: steak in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A thick, flat slice of good meat, usually beef, cooked by grilling or frying.
The tree, 14 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
A
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
5 slice
det
2
thick
thick
ADJ
Degree=Pos
5 slice
amod
3
,
,
PUNCT
_
2 thick
punct
4
flat
flat
ADJ
Degree=Pos
5 slice
amod
5
slice
slice
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
6
of
of
ADP
_
8 meat
case
7
good
good
ADJ
Degree=Pos
8 meat
amod
8
meat
meat
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 slice
nmod
9
,
,
PUNCT
_
11 beef
punct
10
usually
usually
ADV
_
11 beef
advmod
11
beef
beef
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 slice
conj
12
,
,
PUNCT
_
13 cooked
punct
13
cooked
cook
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
5 slice
conj
14
by
by
SCONJ
_
15 grilling
mark
15
grilling
grill
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
13 cooked
advcl
16
or
or
CCONJ
_
17 frying
cc
17
frying
fry
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
15 grilling
conj
18
.
.
PUNCT
_
5 slice
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
cook
participle
vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2
grill
gerund
vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3
fry
gerund
vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4
slice
good meat
nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient
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
A thick slice of fish, such as a salmon or tuna steak.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
A
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
3 slice
det
2
thick
thick
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 slice
amod
3
slice
slice
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
4
of
of
ADP
_
5 fish
case
5
fish
fish
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 slice
nmod
6
,
,
PUNCT
_
13 steak
punct
7
such
such
ADJ
Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP
13 steak
case
8
as
as
ADP
_
7 such
fixed
9
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
10 salmon
det
10
salmon
salmon
NOUN
Number=Sing
13 steak
compound
11
or
or
CCONJ
_
12 tuna
cc
12
tuna
tuna
NOUN
Number=Sing
10 salmon
conj
13
steak
steak
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 slice
conj
14
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 slice
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
slice
fish
nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient
Meaning 3
Usage: UK — kept apart, not parsed.
Cheaper chopped beef used in pies and stews: steak and kidney pie.
He gathered a bundle of sticks for a fire, and was just preparing to cook a steak, when his enemy, the Lapp, came up, panting with haste and excitement.
The tree, 29 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme
2
prepare
past · progressive
He not said here
vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3
cooknot said to happen
to-infinitive
He not said here
a steak
vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent steak=Patient
4
come up
past
his enemy
vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5
pant
gerund
his enemy not said here
with haste and excitement
vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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.