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summarise

Who acts: you, plants, scientist, news reader, your, I · What happens: give, leave out, point, summarise, need, happen · To what, where: main points, few words, details, something, story, three sentences

«summarise» in the school dictionary: its meaning 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: summarise in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To give the main points of something in a few words, leaving out the details.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 points	det
4	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 points	amod
5	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 something	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 points	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 words	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 words	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 words	amod
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leaving	punct
13	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 give	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 leaving	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 details	det
16	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 leaving	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		the main points of something		a few words			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme
2	leave out	gerund		the details					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme
3	point			something					nom point «cognition 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.

Example 1

Summarise the story in three sentences.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summarise	summarise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Summarise	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sentences	case
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sentences	nummod
6	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 story	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Summarise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summarise	imperative	you not said here	the story		three sentences			tree rules

Example 2

To summarise, plants need light, water and air.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 summarise	mark
2	summarise	summarise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 need	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 summarise	punct
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 water	punct
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 air	cc
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summarise	to-infinitive	plants not said here						tree rules
2	need	present	plants	light and water and air					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme

Example 3

Can you summarise what happened in the chapter?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 summarise	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 summarise	nsubj
3	summarise	summarise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 summarise	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 chapter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chapter	det
8	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 summarise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summarise	can	you						tree rules
2	happen	past				the chapter			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in chapter=Location

Example 4

The scientist summarised her results in a table.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scientist	det
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 summarised	nsubj
3	summarised	summarise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 results	nmod:poss
5	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 summarised	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 table	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 summarised	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 summarised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summarise	past	the scientist	scientist's results		a table			tree rules
2	result		scientist						nom result «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Example 5

The news reader summarised the day's main stories.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reader	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reader	compound
3	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 summarised	nsubj
4	summarised	summarise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stories	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 day	case
8	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stories	amod
9	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 summarised	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 summarised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summarise	past	the news reader	the day's main stories					tree rules

Example 6

Summarise the paragraph in your own words.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summarise	summarise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 paragraph	det
3	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Summarise	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 words	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 words	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Summarise	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Summarise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summarise	imperative	you not said here	the paragraph		your own words			tree rules
2	word		your						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Example 7

In this place I can only roughly summarise my results.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 place	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 place	det
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 summarise	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 summarise	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 summarise	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 summarise	advmod
7	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	8 summarise	advmod
8	summarise	summarise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 results	nmod:poss
10	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 summarise	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 summarise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summarise	can	I	my results		this place		roughly property	tree rules
2	result		my						nom result «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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.

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