astounding
Who acts: She, It, roar, dragon · What happens: believe, show, be, tell, roar · To what, where: astounding skill, astounding thing · Speech: someone speaks here
«astounding» 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: astounding in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Amazing and very surprising, hard to believe.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 surprising | cc |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 surprising | advmod |
| 4 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Amazing | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hard | punct |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Amazing | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 believe | mark |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hard | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Amazing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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
She showed astounding skill with the sword.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | astounding | astounding | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 skill | amod |
| 4 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sword | det |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skill | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | She | astounding skill | with the sword | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent skill=Recipient |
Example 2
It is an astounding thing to tell.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | astounding | astounding | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a astounding thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Example 3
The dragon's roar was astounding.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roar | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dragon | case |
| 4 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 astounding | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 astounding | cop |
| 6 | astounding | astounding | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 astounding | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dragon's roar | astounding property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roar | the dragon | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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