gruesome
Who acts: film, gruesome tale, us · What happens: involve, have, tell, make, shiver · To what, where: blood, gruesome scene, story, us · Speech: someone speaks here
«gruesome» 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: gruesome in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Horrible and disgusting, often involving blood, injury or death.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 disgusting | cc |
| 3 | disgusting | disgusting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Horrible | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 involving | punct |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 involving | advmod |
| 6 | involving | involve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Horrible | conj |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 involving | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 injury | punct |
| 9 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blood | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 death | cc |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blood | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Horrible | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | involve | gerund | blood and injury or death | often property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
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 film had a gruesome scene.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 film | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scene | det |
| 5 | gruesome | gruesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scene | amod |
| 6 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the film | a gruesome scene | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Patient |
Example 2
The story told of a gruesome witch.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 story | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 witch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 6 | gruesome | gruesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 witch | amod |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 story | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | the story not said here | of a gruesome witch | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Example 3
The gruesome tale made us shiver.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tale | det |
| 2 | gruesome | gruesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tale | amod |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | shiver | shiver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the gruesome tale | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shiver | infinitive | us not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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