tallow
Who acts: Tallow, sausage, you · What happens: be, use, make, not do, know · To what, where: hard animal fat, candles, candle, storeroom, story
«tallow» 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: tallow in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Tallow is hard animal fat, used to make candles and soap.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fat | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fat | cop |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fat | amod |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fat | compound |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fat | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 used | advcl |
| 10 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 soap | cc |
| 12 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 candles | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tallow | hard animal fat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | hard animal fat not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | candles and soap | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset candle=Product |
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 candle was made of tallow.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 candle | det |
| 2 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tallow | case |
| 6 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the candle | of tallow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Example 2
Mouldy bread, tallow candle, and sausage were in the storeroom.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mouldy | mouldy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bread | amod |
| 2 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 candle | punct |
| 4 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 candle | compound |
| 5 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bread | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 storeroom | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 storeroom | cc |
| 8 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 storeroom | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 storeroom | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 storeroom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 storeroom | det |
| 12 | storeroom | storeroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bread | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bread | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sausage | the storeroom | tree rules |
Example 3
Don't you know any story about bacon and tallow?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | advcl |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Do | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 bacon | case |
| 8 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tallow | cc |
| 10 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bacon | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | present | you | any story | about bacon and tallow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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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