terrapin

Who acts: terrapin, small water turtle, We · What happens: be, live, hide, see, sun · To what, where: small water turtle, ponds, pond, terrapin, log

«terrapin» 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: terrapin in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A terrapin is a small water turtle that lives in ponds and rivers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 terrapin	det
2	terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turtle	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turtle	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 turtle	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turtle	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turtle	compound
7	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lives	nsubj
9	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turtle	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 ponds	case
11	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lives	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rivers	cc
13	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ponds	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turtle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a terrapin	a small water turtle					tree rules
2	live	present	a small water turtle			ponds and rivers			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location

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 terrapin hid in the pond.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 terrapin	det
2	terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pond	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pond	det
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the terrapin			the pond			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pond=Location

Example 2

The terrapin was slow but very clever.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 terrapin	det
2	terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 clever	cc
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 clever	advmod
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slow	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the terrapin					slow property	tree rules
2	be		the terrapin not said here						tree rules

Example 3

We saw a terrapin sunning itself on a log.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 terrapin	det
4	terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	sunning	sun	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 terrapin	acl
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 sunning	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 log	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 log	det
9	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sunning	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	We	a terrapin					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer terrapin=Stimulus
2	sun	gerund	a terrapin not said here	terrapin		a log			tree rules

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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