Who acts: acting, His, villain, you, film, soup · What happens: act, exaggerate, taste, smell, be, give · To what, where: over-the-top, natural way, school play, hammy laugh, line, hammy taste · Speech: someone speaks here
«hammy» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 6 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: hammy in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Usage: informal — kept apart, not parsed.
Acting in an over-the-top, exaggerated, not natural way.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Acting
act
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
6 exaggerated
advcl
2
in
in
ADP
_
4 over-the-top
case
3
an
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
4 over-the-top
det
4
over-the-top
over-the-top
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Acting
obl
5
,
,
PUNCT
_
1 Acting
punct
6
exaggerated
exaggerate
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
root
root
7
,
,
PUNCT
_
10 way
punct
8
not
not
PART
Polarity=Neg
10 way
advmod
9
natural
natural
ADJ
Degree=Pos
10 way
amod
10
way
way
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 exaggerated
obl
11
.
.
PUNCT
_
6 exaggerated
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
act
gerund
a over-the-top
vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2
exaggerate
participle
natural way
tree rules
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
Tasting or smelling of ham.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Tasting
taste
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
2
or
or
CCONJ
_
3 smelling
cc
3
smelling
smell
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
1 Tasting
conj
4
of
of
ADP
_
5 ham
case
5
ham
ham
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 smelling
obl
6
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Tasting
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
taste
gerund
vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2
smell
gerund
of ham
vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of ham=Theme
vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faint=Eventuality
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.