winding

Who acts: Winding, bends, path, We · What happens: mean, turn back, be, wind, follow · To what, where: winding river, sea

«winding» 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: winding in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Winding means full of bends and curves that turn back and forth: a winding path or river.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bends	case
5	bends	bend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 curves	cc
7	curves	curve	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bends	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 turn	nsubj
9	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bends	acl:relcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 turn	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 forth	cc
12	forth	forth	ADV	_	10 back	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 path	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 path	det
15	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 path	compound
16	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	parataxis
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 river	cc
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 path	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Winding					full property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	turn back	present	bends and curves						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: 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 path was long and winding.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 path	det
2	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 winding	cc
6	winding	wind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 long	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the path					long property	tree rules
2	wind	gerund	the path not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

We followed the winding river to the sea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
4	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 river	compound
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	We	the winding river		the sea			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent river=Theme to sea=Trajectory

Example 3

The road wound through the winding hills.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wound	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wound	compound
3	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 hills	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
6	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hills	compound
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wound	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wound	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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