detachment

Who acts: detachment, calm feeling, captain, She · What happens: be, send off, do, not be, care, send · To what, where: small group, workers, special job, calm feeling, detachment, bridge

«detachment» 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: detachment in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A detachment is a small group of soldiers or workers sent off to do a special job.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 detachment	det
2	detachment	detachment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 group	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 group	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 group	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 group	amod
6	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 soldiers	case
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 group	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 workers	cc
10	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 soldiers	conj
11	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 workers	acl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 sent	compound:prt
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sent	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 job	det
16	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 job	amod
17	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 group	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a detachment	a small group	of soldiers or workers	tree rules
2	send off	participle		workers not said here		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	do	to-infinitive		a special job		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

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

Detachment is a calm feeling of not being involved or caring too much.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Detachment	detachment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feeling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feeling	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feeling	det
4	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feeling	amod
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 involved	mark
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 involved	advmod
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 involved	cop
9	involved	involved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feeling	acl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 caring	cc
11	caring	care	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 involved	conj
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	11 caring	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 feeling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Detachment	a calm feeling		tree rules
2	not is	gerund	a calm feeling not said here		involved property	tree rules
3	care	gerund	a calm feeling not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Example 1

The captain sent a detachment of ten soldiers to guard the bridge.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 captain	det
2	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 detachment	det
5	detachment	detachment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 soldiers	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 soldiers	nummod
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 detachment	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 guard	mark
10	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bridge	det
12	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guard	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	send	past	the captain	a detachment of ten soldiers	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detachment=Theme
2	guard	to-infinitive	the captain not said here	the bridge	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Beneficiary
3	detach			ten soldiers	nom detachment «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Example 2

Each detachment marched to its own hill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 detachment	det
2	detachment	detachment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marched	nsubj
3	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 hill	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hill	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hill	amod
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marched	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 marched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past	each detachment					to detachment's own hill result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hill=Result

Example 3

She watched the quarrel with calm detachment.

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 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 quarrel	det
4	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 detachment	case
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 detachment	amod
7	detachment	detachment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quarrel	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	She	the quarrel				with calm detachment	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detachment/