verst

Who acts: verst, They, versts · What happens: be, walk, grow, build · To what, where: old Russian measure, bridge

«verst» 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: verst in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A verst is an old Russian measure of distance, a little more than a kilometre.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 verst	det
2	verst	verst	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 measure	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 measure	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 measure	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 measure	amod
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 measure	amod
7	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 distance	case
9	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 measure	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 more	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 little	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 more	obl:unmarked
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 measure	parataxis
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 kilometre	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 kilometre	det
16	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 more	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 measure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a verst	a old Russian measure				of distance	tree rules

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

They walked and walked for several versts, then they grew tired.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 walked	cc
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 versts	case
6	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 versts	amod
7	versts	verst	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grew	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 grew	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grew	nsubj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
12	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grew	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	They			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	They not said here		for several versts	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	versts = verst	then	tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

They built a bridge five versts long.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	obj
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 versts	nummod
6	versts	verst	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 long	obl:unmarked
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 built	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 built	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	They	a bridge					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bridge=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verst/