Who acts: politician, Heckling, teacher, She, binnings · What happens: shout, interrupt, speak, perform, heckle, mean · To what, where: rude remarks, someone, public, flax, comedian, referee · Speech: someone speaks here
«heckling» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 7 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: heckling in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Shouting rude remarks or questions to interrupt someone who is speaking or performing in public, such as a comedian or politician.
The tree, 21 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Topic
2
interrupt
to-infinitive
someone
tree rules
3
speakspeech: other
present · progressive
vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4
perform
gerund
public
vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: 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
Heckling can also mean combing flax or hemp fibres with a heckle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Heckling
heckle
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
4 mean
nsubj
2
can
can
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
4 mean
aux
3
also
also
ADV
_
4 mean
advmod
4
mean
mean
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
5
combing
comb
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
4 mean
xcomp
6
flax
flax
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 combing
obj
7
or
or
CCONJ
_
9 fibres
cc
8
hemp
hemp
NOUN
Number=Sing
9 fibres
compound
9
fibres
fibre
NOUN
Number=Plur
6 flax
conj
10
with
with
ADP
_
12 heckle
case
11
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
12 heckle
det
12
heckle
heckle
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 combing
obl
13
.
.
PUNCT
_
4 mean
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
heckle
gerund
tree rules
2
mean
can
vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3
combnot said to happen
gerund
flax or hemp fibres
with a heckle
vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Patient
Example 1
The comedian dealt with the heckling very cleverly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
The
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
2 comedian
det
2
comedian
comedian
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
3
dealt
deal
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
2 comedian
acl
4
with
with
ADP
_
6 heckling
case
5
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
6 heckling
det
6
heckling
heckling
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 dealt
obl
7
very
very
ADV
_
8 cleverly
advmod
8
cleverly
cleverly
ADV
_
3 dealt
advmod
9
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 comedian
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
deal
participle
the comedian not said here
with the heckling; cleverly property
vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with heckling=Theme
Example 2
There was loud heckling during the politician's speech.
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.