disastrous

Who acts: causing, flood, party, cake, disastrous storm · What happens: cause, do, be, fall, blow down · To what, where: great harm, disastrous mess, trees

«disastrous» 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: disastrous in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Very bad, causing great harm, loss or ruin, as a flood or a fire does.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 bad	advmod
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 causing	punct
4	causing	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 does	csubj
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 harm	amod
6	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 causing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 loss	punct
8	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 harm	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 ruin	cc
10	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 harm	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flood	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 flood	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 flood	det
14	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 causing	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 fire	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flood	conj
18	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bad	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	gerund		great harm and loss or ruin				as a flood or a fire	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient
2	do	present	causing						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Example 1

The flood was disastrous for the village.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flood	det
2	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disastrous	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disastrous	cop
4	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disastrous	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disastrous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the flood					for the village; disastrous property	tree rules

Example 2

The party was a disastrous mess after the cake fell.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 party	det
2	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mess	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mess	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mess	det
5	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mess	amod
6	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 fell	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cake	det
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mess	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the party	a disastrous mess					tree rules
2	fall	past	the cake						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 3

A disastrous storm blew down all the trees.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 storm	det
2	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 storm	amod
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 blew	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 trees	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blew	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow down	past	a disastrous storm	all trees				down property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

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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