velveteen
Who acts: Velveteen, coat, velveteen rabbit · What happens: be, make, use, have, hold · To what, where: soft cloth, toy rabbit, velveteen collar
«velveteen» 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: velveteen in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Velveteen is a soft cloth like velvet, made of cotton, often used for toys and clothes.
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Velveteen | Velveteen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cloth | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cloth | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloth | det |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cloth | amod |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 velvet | case |
| 7 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloth | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cloth | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cotton | case |
| 11 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 used | punct |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 used | advmod |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 made | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 toys | case |
| 16 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 used | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 clothes | cc |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 toys | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cloth | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Velveteen | a soft cloth | like velvet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | participle | a soft cloth not said here | of cotton | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | for toys and clothes; often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 toy rabbit was made of velveteen.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rabbit | det |
| 2 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rabbit | compound |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 velveteen | case |
| 7 | velveteen | velveteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the toy rabbit | of velveteen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Example 2
Her coat had a velveteen collar.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 coat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 collar | det |
| 5 | velveteen | velveteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 collar | compound |
| 6 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Her coat | a velveteen collar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient |
Example 3
The velveteen rabbit was soft to hold.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rabbit | det |
| 2 | velveteen | velveteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rabbit | compound |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soft | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 soft | cop |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hold | mark |
| 7 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 soft | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 soft | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the velveteen rabbit | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | the velveteen rabbit not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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