thicket
Who acts: trees, rabbit, They, vixen · What happens: grow, see through, hide, come, pop out · To what, where: thicket, little thicket
«thicket» 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: thicket in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A small group of bushes or trees growing close together, hard to see through.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 group | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 group | amod |
| 3 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hard | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bushes | case |
| 5 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 group | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 trees | cc |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bushes | conj |
| 8 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 trees | acl |
| 9 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 growing | advmod |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 growing | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hard | punct |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hard | xcomp |
| 15 | through | through | ADV | _ | 14 see | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hard | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | trees not said here | close, together property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see through | to-infinitive | through property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
A rabbit hid in the thicket.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | 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 thicket | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thicket | det |
| 6 | thicket | thicket | 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 | a rabbit | the thicket | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thicket=Location |
Example 2
They came to a little thicket.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 thicket | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thicket | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thicket | amod |
| 6 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | They | a little thicket | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thicket=Initial_Location |
Example 3
A vixen popped out of the thicket.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 vixen | det |
| 2 | vixen | vixen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | popped | pop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 vixen | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 thicket | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 thicket | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thicket | det |
| 7 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 popped | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 vixen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop out | participle | a vixen not said here | the thicket | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thicket=Patient |
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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