ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Interlinear gloss

Interlinear gloss is like a special way of writing out words so that you can understand different parts of a sentence. Imagine you're trying to learn a new language and you have a sentence like "The dog chases the cat." With interlinear gloss, you would write it in three parts, like this:

- The (Article) dog (Noun) chases (Verb) the (Article) cat (Noun)

This way, you can see that "the" and "dog" are two separate words, and "chases" is the action that the dog is doing. It's like a code that helps you understand how the sentence is put together. This can be really helpful when you're trying to learn a new language or analyze a sentence in linguistics.