Who acts: Toothpaste, you, We, Fluoride toothpaste, little brother · What happens: be, put, clean, size, not swallow, spit out · To what, where: soft paste, toothbrush, teeth, sized blob, brush, toothpaste
«toothpaste» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 7 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: toothpaste in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Toothpaste is a soft paste that you put on a toothbrush to clean your teeth.
The tree, 15 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme on toothbrush=Destination
3
clean
to-infinitive
you not said here
your teeth
vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=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.
Example 1
Put a pea-sized blob of toothpaste on your brush.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Put
put
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
6 blob
det
3
pea
pea
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 sized
compound
4
-
-
PUNCT
_
3 pea
punct
5
sized
size
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
6 blob
amod
6
blob
blob
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Put
obj
7
of
of
ADP
_
8 toothpaste
case
8
toothpaste
toothpaste
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 blob
nmod
9
on
on
ADP
_
11 brush
case
10
your
your
PRON
Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs
11 brush
nmod:poss
11
brush
brush
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Put
obl
12
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Put
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
put
imperative
you not said here
a sized blob of toothpaste
your brush
vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent blob=Theme on brush=Destination
vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toothpaste=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.