clammy

Who acts: hands, cave walls, It, forehead, teacher, frog · What happens: touch, be, feel, call · To what, where: skin, clammy muggy day, nurse, it · Speech: someone speaks here

«clammy» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 7 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: clammy in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Unpleasantly damp, cold and sticky to touch, especially skin.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unpleasantly	unpleasantly	ADV	_	2 damp	advmod
2	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 damp	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sticky	cc
6	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 damp	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 touch	mark
8	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sticky	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 skin	punct
10	especially	especially	ADV	_	11 skin	advmod
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touch	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 damp	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	to-infinitive		skin					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skin=Co-Theme

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.

Meaning 2

Usage: weather — kept apart, not parsed.

Damp and heavy, warm and sticky (clammy air).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 warm	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 heavy	cc
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Damp	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warm	punct
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sticky	cc
7	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 warm	conj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 air	punct
9	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 air	amod
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warm	parataxis
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 air	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 warm	punct

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

Example 1

My hands were clammy before the spelling test.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hands	nmod:poss
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 test	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 test	cop
4	clammy	clammy	ADV	_	8 test	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	8 test	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 test	det
7	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 test	compound
8	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	My hands				before the spelling test	clammy property	tree rules

Example 2

The cave walls felt cold and clammy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 walls	det
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walls	compound
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 clammy	cc
7	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cold	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the cave walls					cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Example 3

It was a clammy, muggy day in August.

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	7 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 day	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
4	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clammy	punct
6	muggy	muggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 August	case
9	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 day	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a clammy muggy day			august		tree rules

Example 4

His forehead was pale and clammy, so the teacher called the nurse.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 forehead	nmod:poss
2	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pale	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pale	cop
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 clammy	cc
6	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pale	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 called	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 teacher	det
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	nsubj
11	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pale	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nurse	det
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pale	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	His forehead		pale property	tree rules
2	be		His forehead not said here			tree rules
3	call	past	the teacher	the nurse		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient

Example 5

The frog felt clammy in my hands.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 felt	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the frog					in my hands; clammy property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in hand=Attribute

Example 6

Wet socks are horribly clammy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 socks	amod
2	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clammy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clammy	cop
4	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	5 clammy	advmod
5	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clammy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wet socks					clammy, horribly property	tree rules

Example 7

I felt it; it felt clammy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
7	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 felt	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	I	it					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	feel	past	it					clammy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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