stopper
Who acts: stopper, plug, you, jar · What happens: be, fit, close, pull, have, put back · To what, where: plug, top, stopper, bottle, cork stopper, jar
«stopper» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 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: stopper in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A stopper is a plug or cork that fits into the top of a bottle or jar to close it.
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stopper | det |
| 2 | stopper | stopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plug | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plug | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plug | det |
| 5 | plug | plug | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 cork | cc |
| 7 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plug | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fits | nsubj |
| 9 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plug | acl:relcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fits | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bottle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bottle | det |
| 15 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 jar | cc |
| 17 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bottle | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 close | mark |
| 19 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fits | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 close | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plug | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a stopper | a plug or cork | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fit | present | a plug or cork | the top of a bottle or jar | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into top=Destination | ||||
| 3 | close | to-infinitive | a plug or cork not said here | stopper | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.
Example 1
Pull the stopper out of the bottle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stopper | det |
| 3 | stopper | stopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 bottle | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bottle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pull | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | imperative | you not said here | the stopper | the bottle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stopper=Theme out bottle=Initial_Location |
Example 2
The jar had a cork stopper.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jar | det |
| 2 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stopper | det |
| 5 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stopper | compound |
| 6 | stopper | stopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the jar | a cork stopper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stopper=Patient |
Example 3
Put the stopper back in the jar.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stopper | det |
| 3 | stopper | stopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 jar | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jar | det |
| 7 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put back | imperative | you not said here | the stopper | the jar | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stopper=Theme in jar=Destination |
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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