crashing
Who acts: things, heavy bodies, We, falling tree, horse · What happens: smash, break, fall, noise, burst, hear · To what, where: things, crashing, bushes, loud crashing, crashings
«crashing» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: crashing in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A loud noise of things smashing, breaking or falling.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 noise | det |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noise | amod |
| 3 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 things | case |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 noise | nmod |
| 6 | smashing | smash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 things | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 breaking | punct |
| 8 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 smashing | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 falling | cc |
| 10 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 smashing | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | gerund | things not said here | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | break | gerund | things not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | fall | gerund | things not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | noise | things | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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.
Meaning 2
The sound of heavy bodies bursting through things, such as trees or branches.
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bodies | case |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bodies | amod |
| 5 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sound | nmod |
| 6 | bursting | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 bodies | acl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bursting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trees | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 trees | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 things | appos |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 branches | cc |
| 14 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 trees | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sound | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | gerund | heavy bodies not said here | things | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through thing=Location |
Example 1
We heard a crashing in the bushes.
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 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crashing | det |
| 4 | crashing | crashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bushes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bushes | det |
| 7 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 heard | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | We | a crashing | the bushes | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crashing=Stimulus |
Example 2
The falling tree made a loud crashing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tree | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crashing | det |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crashing | amod |
| 7 | crashing | crashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | make | past | the falling tree | a loud crashing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crashing=Product |
Example 3
Through the crashings of the branches, the horse ran on.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 crashings | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crashings | det |
| 3 | crashings | crashing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ran | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 branches | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 branches | det |
| 6 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crashings | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crashings | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run on | past | the horse | the crashings of the branches | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crashing=Trajectory |
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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