Who acts: It, you, anyone, Small groups, She · What happens: keep, threaten, bother, make, repeat, be · To what, where: someone, repeated small attacks, enemy, people, boys, younger children · Speech: someone speaks here
«harass» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 5 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: harass in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To keep annoying, upsetting, threatening or bothering someone again and again.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 keep
mark
2
keep
keep
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
annoying
annoying
ADJ
Degree=Pos
2 keep
xcomp
4
,
,
PUNCT
_
5 upsetting
punct
5
upsetting
upsetting
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 annoying
conj
6
,
,
PUNCT
_
7 threatening
punct
7
threatening
threaten
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
2 keep
advcl
8
or
or
CCONJ
_
9 bothering
cc
9
bothering
bother
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
7 threatening
conj
10
someone
someone
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
9 bothering
obj
11
again
again
ADV
_
9 bothering
advmod
12
and
and
CCONJ
_
13 again
cc
13
again
again
ADV
_
11 again
conj
14
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 keep
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
keep
to-infinitive
annoying property
vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2
threaten
gerund
vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3
bother
gerund
someone
again
vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer
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 make repeated small attacks on an enemy.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 make
mark
2
make
make
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
repeated
repeat
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
5 attacks
amod
4
small
small
ADJ
Degree=Pos
5 attacks
amod
5
attacks
attack
NOUN
Number=Plur
2 make
obj
6
on
on
ADP
_
8 enemy
case
7
an
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
8 enemy
det
8
enemy
enemy
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 attacks
nmod
9
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 make
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
make
to-infinitive
repeated small attacks
a enemy
vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attack=Product
vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2
harass
participle
She not said here
by the constant phone calls
vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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.