havoc

Who acts: cat, pestilence · What happens: cause, make · To what, where: destruction, havoc, terrible havoc

«havoc» 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: havoc in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Great damage, mess or destruction caused by something or someone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 damage	amod
2	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mess	punct
4	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 damage	conj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 destruction	cc
6	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 damage	conj
7	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 destruction	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 something	case
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 caused	obl:agent
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 someone	cc
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 something	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 damage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	participle		destruction not said here					vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

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 cat caused havoc among the mice.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	havoc	havoc	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obj
5	among	among	ADP	_	7 mice	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mice	det
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caused	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	the cat	havoc				among the mice	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition havoc=Patient

Example 2

The storm wrought havoc on the village.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 havoc	nsubj
3	wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 havoc	amod
4	havoc	havoc	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 havoc	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 havoc	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 3

A pestilence made terrible havoc among the people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pestilence	det
2	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pestilence	acl
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 havoc	amod
5	havoc	havoc	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	among	among	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl:agent
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pestilence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle	a pestilence not said here	terrible havoc					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset havoc=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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