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grimace

Who acts: grimace, twisted ugly face, He, She, medicine, goblin · What happens: be, make, show, tease, pull, grimace · To what, where: twisted ugly face, pain, grimace, sour milk, tongue, grimaces

«grimace» 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: grimace in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A grimace is a twisted, ugly face made to show pain, disgust or to tease.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grimace	det
2	grimace	grimace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 face	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 face	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 face	det
5	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 face	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 twisted	punct
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 face	amod
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 face	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 show	mark
11	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 made	xcomp
12	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 disgust	punct
14	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pain	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 tease	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tease	mark
17	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pain	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 face	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a grimace	a twisted ugly face					tree rules
2	make	participle		a twisted ugly face not said here					tree rules
3	show	to-infinitive	a twisted ugly face not said here	pain and disgust					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pain=Recipient
4	tease	to-infinitive	a twisted ugly face not said here						vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: 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.

Meaning 2

To grimace is to make such a face.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 grimace	mark
2	grimace	grimace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 face	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 face	det
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	grimace					make property	tree rules

Example 1

He pulled a grimace at the sour milk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grimace	det
4	grimace	grimace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 milk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 milk	det
7	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 milk	amod
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pulled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	He	a grimace		the sour milk			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent grimace=Theme at milk=Asset

Example 2

She grimaced when the medicine touched her tongue.

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 grimaced	nsubj
2	grimaced	grimace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 touched	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 medicine	det
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	nsubj
6	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grimaced	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tongue	nmod:poss
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grimaced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grimace	past	She						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	touch	past	the medicine	medicine's tongue					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tongue=Co-Theme

Example 3

The goblin made grimaces at the children.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goblin	det
2	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 goblin	acl
4	grimaces	grimace	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goblin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle	the goblin not said here	grimaces				at the children	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grimace=Product

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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