ominous

Who acts: Ominous, something, it, dark clouds, ominous silence, He · What happens: mean, show, be, happen, look, fall · To what, where: warning sign, forest, ominous warning · Speech: someone speaks here

«ominous» 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: ominous in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Ominous means showing that something bad is about to happen; it is a warning sign.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ominous	ominous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 about	mark
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 about	nsubj
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 about	cop
8	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 showing	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 happen	mark
10	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 about	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sign	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sign	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sign	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sign	det
15	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sign	compound
16	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Ominous			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	show not said to happen	gerund	Ominous not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	something		about property	tree rules
4	happen	to-infinitive	something not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	it	a warning sign		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.

Example 1

The dark clouds looked ominous.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clouds	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clouds	amod
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ominous	ominous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the dark clouds					ominous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Example 2

An ominous silence fell over the forest.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 silence	det
2	ominous	ominous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 silence	amod
3	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a ominous silence			the forest			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over forest=Location

Example 3

He ignored the ominous warning and went on.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 warning	det
4	ominous	ominous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 warning	amod
5	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ignored	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ignored	conj
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ignored	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	He	the ominous warning					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme
2	go on	past	He not said here						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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