vermin

Who acts: Vermin, that, people, captain, He · What happens: be, spread, hate, wonder, ask, not be · To what, where: small animals, disease, this, horrible vermin, us

«vermin» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: vermin in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Vermin are small animals, such as rats, mice or insects, that spread disease or spoil food and are hated by people.

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vermin	Vermin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rats	punct
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	8 rats	case
7	as	as	ADP	_	6 such	fixed
8	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mice	punct
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rats	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 insects	cc
12	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rats	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spread	punct
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 spread	nsubj
15	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	parataxis
16	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spread	obj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 food	cc
18	spoil	spoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 food	compound
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 disease	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hated	cc
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hated	aux:pass
22	hated	hate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 spread	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 people	case
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hated	obl:agent
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 animals	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Vermin	small animals and rats and mice or insects	tree rules
2	spread	past	that	disease or spoil food	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=Theme
3	hate	present · passive	people		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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

The captain wondered at this, and asked if these vermin were not unpleasant.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 captain	det
2	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wondered	nsubj
3	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wondered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wondered	parataxis
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 unpleasant	mark
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 vermin	det
11	vermin	vermin	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 unpleasant	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 unpleasant	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 unpleasant	advmod
14	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 asked	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wondered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	the captain	this		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	past				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	this vermin		unpleasant property	tree rules

Example 2

He sent us this horrible vermin that he wants to rid us of.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 vermin	det
5	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vermin	amod
6	vermin	vermin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 wants	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wants	nsubj
9	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 rid	mark
11	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wants	xcomp
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 rid	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	11 rid	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	send	past	He	this horrible vermin	us	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination vermin=Theme
2	want	present	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	rid not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	us		vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Source

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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