Who acts: We, Grandma, stew, you, She, real stew · What happens: cook, mean, keep, worry, stew, have · To what, where: vegetables, food, beef stew, Irish stew, apples, bed
«stew» in the school dictionary: its 3 meanings for a pupil and its 7 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: stew in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A meal of meat or vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a pot.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
A
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
2 meal
det
2
meal
meal
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
3
of
of
ADP
_
4 meat
case
4
meat
meat
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 meal
nmod
5
or
or
CCONJ
_
6 vegetables
cc
6
vegetables
vegetable
NOUN
Number=Plur
4 meat
conj
7
cooked
cook
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
6 vegetables
acl
8
slowly
slowly
ADV
_
7 cooked
advmod
9
in
in
ADP
_
10 liquid
case
10
liquid
liquid
NOUN
Number=Sing
7 cooked
obl
11
in
in
ADP
_
13 pot
case
12
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
13 pot
det
13
pot
pot
NOUN
Number=Sing
7 cooked
obl
14
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 meal
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
cook
participle
vegetables not said here
in a pot; in liquid; slowly property
vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in liquid=Instrument
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
To cook food slowly in liquid.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 cook
mark
2
cook
cook
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
food
food
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 cook
obj
4
slowly
slowly
ADV
_
2 cook
advmod
5
in
in
ADP
_
6 liquid
case
6
liquid
liquid
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 cook
obl
7
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 cook
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
cook
to-infinitive
food
in liquid; slowly property
vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent food=Patient in liquid=Instrument
The example in this meaning, parsed on its own:
"stewed apples".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
"
"
PUNCT
_
3 apples
punct
2
stewed
stew
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
3 apples
amod
3
apples
apple
NOUN
Number=Plur
root
root
4
"
"
PUNCT
_
3 apples
punct
5
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 apples
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
stewin a quote
participle
vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
Meaning 3
Informally, "in a stew" means worried and upset; to "stew" means to keep worrying about something.
The tree, 16 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wife=Result
2
make
past
Fowler's wife
a savoury stew of the Yellow Bird
speedily property
vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stew=Product
3
stew
the Yellow Bird
nom stew «state intransitive»: of=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.