Who acts: deadly, mushrooms, box jellyfish, She, deadly silence, Carbon monoxide · What happens: kill, cause, mean, be, not eat, have · To what, where: death, wild ones, deadly sting, haunted house, deadly gas, deadly shot
«deadly» in the school dictionary: its 4 meanings for a pupil and its 9 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: deadly in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Able to kill or very likely to cause death: a deadly poison, a deadly snake.
The tree, 15 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Able
able
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
2
to
to
PART
_
3 kill
mark
3
kill
kill
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
1 Able
xcomp
4
or
or
CCONJ
_
6 likely
cc
5
very
very
ADV
_
6 likely
advmod
6
likely
likely
ADJ
Degree=Pos
1 Able
conj
7
to
to
PART
_
8 cause
mark
8
cause
cause
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
6 likely
xcomp
9
death
death
NOUN
Number=Sing
8 cause
obj
10
:
:
PUNCT
_
13 poison
punct
11
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
13 poison
det
12
deadly
deadly
ADJ
Degree=Pos
13 poison
amod
13
poison
poison
NOUN
Number=Sing
9 death
appos
14
,
,
PUNCT
_
17 snake
punct
15
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
17 snake
det
16
deadly
deadly
ADJ
Degree=Pos
17 snake
amod
17
snake
snake
NOUN
Number=Sing
13 poison
conj
18
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Able
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
kill
to-infinitive
vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2
cause
to-infinitive
death
vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient
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
Very great or complete: deadly serious, deadly quiet.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Very
very
ADV
_
2 great
advmod
2
great
great
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
3
or
or
CCONJ
_
4 complete
cc
4
complete
complete
ADJ
Degree=Pos
2 great
conj
5
:
:
PUNCT
_
7 serious
punct
6
deadly
deadly
ADJ
Degree=Pos
7 serious
amod
7
serious
serious
ADJ
Degree=Pos
2 great
conj
8
,
,
PUNCT
_
10 quiet
punct
9
deadly
deadly
ADJ
Degree=Pos
10 quiet
amod
10
quiet
quiet
NOUN
Number=Sing
7 serious
conj
11
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 great
punct
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Meaning 3
In Australian slang, "deadly" can mean excellent or awesome, especially in Aboriginal English.
The tree, 13 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
In
in
ADP
_
3 slang
case
2
Australian
Australian
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 slang
amod
3
slang
slang
NOUN
Number=Sing
9 mean
obl
4
,
,
PUNCT
_
3 slang
punct
5
"
"
PUNCT
_
6 deadly
punct
6
deadly
deadly
ADJ
Degree=Pos
9 mean
nsubj
7
"
"
PUNCT
_
6 deadly
punct
8
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
9 mean
aux
9
mean
mean
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
10
excellent
excellent
ADJ
Degree=Pos
9 mean
xcomp
11
or
or
CCONJ
_
12 awesome
cc
12
awesome
awesome
ADJ
Degree=Pos
10 excellent
conj
13
,
,
PUNCT
_
17 English
punct
14
especially
especially
ADV
_
17 English
advmod
15
in
in
ADP
_
17 English
case
16
Aboriginal
aboriginal
ADJ
Degree=Pos
17 English
amod
17
English
English
PROPN
Number=Sing
9 mean
parataxis
18
.
.
PUNCT
_
9 mean
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
mean
can
deadly
in Australian slang; excellent property
vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in slang=Attribute
Meaning 4
Very accurate and dangerous in a game: a deadly shot at goal.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Very
very
ADV
_
2 accurate
advmod
2
accurate
accurate
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
3
and
and
CCONJ
_
4 dangerous
cc
4
dangerous
dangerous
ADJ
Degree=Pos
2 accurate
conj
5
in
in
ADP
_
7 game
case
6
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
7 game
det
7
game
game
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 dangerous
obl
8
:
:
PUNCT
_
11 shot
punct
9
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
11 shot
det
10
deadly
deadly
ADJ
Degree=Pos
11 shot
amod
11
shot
shot
NOUN
Number=Sing
2 accurate
conj
12
at
at
ADP
_
13 goal
case
13
goal
goal
NOUN
Number=Sing
11 shot
nmod
14
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 accurate
punct
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Example 1
Some mushrooms are deadly, so never eat wild ones.
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.