Who acts: doctor, disc, I, my, vet, She · What happens: use, listen, feel, hear, beat, wear · To what, where: earpieces, heart beating, stethoscope, toy stethoscope, heartbeats
«stethoscope» 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: stethoscope in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A doctor's tool with earpieces and a tube with a small disc at the end, used to listen to the heart, lungs and breathing.
The tree, 25 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
A
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
2 doctor
det
2
doctor
doctor
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 tool
nmod:poss
3
's
's
PART
_
2 doctor
case
4
tool
tool
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
5
with
with
ADP
_
6 earpieces
case
6
earpieces
earpiece
NOUN
Number=Plur
4 tool
nmod
7
and
and
CCONJ
_
9 tube
cc
8
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
9 tube
det
9
tube
tube
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 earpieces
conj
10
with
with
ADP
_
13 disc
case
11
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
13 disc
det
12
small
small
ADJ
Degree=Pos
13 disc
amod
13
disc
disc
NOUN
Number=Sing
9 tube
nmod
14
at
at
ADP
_
16 end
case
15
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
16 end
det
16
end
end
NOUN
Number=Sing
13 disc
nmod
17
,
,
PUNCT
_
18 used
punct
18
used
use
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
6 earpieces
acl
19
to
to
PART
_
20 listen
mark
20
listen
listen
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
18 used
xcomp
21
to
to
ADP
_
23 heart
case
22
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
23 heart
det
23
heart
heart
NOUN
Number=Sing
20 listen
obl
24
,
,
PUNCT
_
25 lungs
punct
25
lungs
lung
NOUN
Number=Plur
23 heart
conj
26
and
and
CCONJ
_
27 breathing
cc
27
breathing
breathing
NOUN
Number=Sing
23 heart
conj
28
.
.
PUNCT
_
4 tool
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
use
participle
earpieces and a tube with a small disc at the end not said here
vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2
listen
to-infinitive
to the heart and lungs and breathing
vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to heart=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.
Example 1
The doctor listened to my chest with a stethoscope.
vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heartbeat=Theme
2
hear
present
you
the heartbeats not said here
second
vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer heartbeat=Stimulus
3
multiply
infinitive
you not said here
then
by 4
vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by 4=Co-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.