Who acts: toaster, small electric kitchen machine, I, toast, you, toaster wires · What happens: be, brown, heat, slice, put, pop up · To what, where: small electric kitchen machine, slices, bread, two slices, toaster, fork
«toaster» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 8 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: toaster in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A toaster is a small electric kitchen machine that browns slices of bread by heating them.
The tree, 16 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent slice=Patient
3
heat
gerund
a small electric kitchen machine not said here
slices = slice
vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4
slice
bread
nom slice «possession 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.
vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toast=Theme
2
isa condition, not said to happen
present
toaster
high property
tree rules
Example 7
Keep the toaster away from the sink.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Keep
keep
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
3 toaster
det
3
toaster
toaster
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Keep
obj
4
away
away
ADV
_
1 Keep
advmod
5
from
from
ADP
_
7 sink
case
6
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
7 sink
det
7
sink
sink
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 away
obl
8
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Keep
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
keep
imperative
you not said here
the toaster
away property
vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toaster=Theme
Example 8
Crumbs in a toaster can catch fire.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Crumbs
crumb
NOUN
Number=Plur
6 catch
nsubj
2
in
in
ADP
_
4 toaster
case
3
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
4 toaster
det
4
toaster
toaster
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Crumbs
nmod
5
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
6 catch
aux
6
catch
catch
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
7
fire
fire
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 catch
obj
8
.
.
PUNCT
_
6 catch
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
catch
can
Crumbs in a toaster
fire
vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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.