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unravel

Who acts: She, web, you · What happens: undo, pull, work out, understand, unravell, make · To what, where: knitting, threads, answer, old scarf, new one, wind

«unravel» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: unravel in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To undo knitting or cloth by pulling the threads apart.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 undo	mark
2	undo	undo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	knitting	knitting	NOUN	_	2 undo	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 cloth	cc
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knitting	conj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 pulling	mark
7	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 undo	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 threads	det
9	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pulling	obj
10	apart	apart	ADV	_	7 pulling	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 undo	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undo	to-infinitive		knitting or cloth					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knitting=Patient
2	pull	gerund		the threads				apart property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme

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.

Meaning 2

To work out the answer to something tangled or hard to understand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 work	mark
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 work	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 work	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 something	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 work	obl
8	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 hard	cc
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tangled	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 understand	mark
12	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hard	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work out	to-infinitive		the answer				to something	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic
2	understand	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Example 1

She unravelled the old scarf to make a new one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 unravelled	nsubj
2	unravelled	unravell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scarf	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scarf	amod
5	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 unravelled	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 unravelled	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 unravelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unravell	past	She	the old scarf					tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	She not said here	a new one					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product

Example 2

The spider's web unravelled in the wind.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 web	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 spider	case
4	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unravelled	nsubj
5	unravelled	unravell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unravelled	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 unravelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unravell	past	the spider's web			the wind			tree rules

Example 3

Can you unravel this puzzle?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 unravel	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 unravel	nsubj
3	unravel	unravel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 puzzle	det
5	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unravel	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 unravel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unravel	can	you	this puzzle					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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