superintend

Who acts: mother, Mr · What happens: superintend, be, manage, make, do · To what, where: job, it, household, building work

«superintend» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: superintend in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To superintend is to watch over and manage a job or people, making sure it is done properly.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 superintend	mark
2	superintend	superintend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 watch	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 watch	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 watch	mark
5	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	5 watch	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 manage	cc
8	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 watch	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 job	det
10	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 manage	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 people	cc
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 job	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 making	punct
14	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 manage	advcl
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 making	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 done	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux:pass
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sure	ccomp
19	properly	properly	ADV	_	18 done	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 watch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	superintend	to-infinitive			vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is	present		watch property	tree rules
3	manage	infinitive	a job or people		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme
4	make	gerund		sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	do	present · passive	it	properly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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 mother superintended the household.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 superintended	nsubj
3	superintended	superintend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 household	det
5	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 superintended	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 superintended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	superintend	past	the mother	the household					vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent household=Theme

Example 2

Mr Brown superintended the building work.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 superintended	nsubj
2	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	superintended	superintend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
5	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	compound
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 superintended	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 superintended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	superintend	past	Mr	the building work					vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent work=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.

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