stench
Who acts: stench, We · What happens: be, fill, hold · To what, where: bad smell, street, noses, stench
«stench» 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: stench in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A stench is a very bad smell.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stench | det |
| 2 | stench | stench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smell | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 smell | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 smell | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 bad | advmod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 smell | amod |
| 7 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 smell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a stench | a bad smell | 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 stench of the bins filled the street.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stench | det |
| 2 | stench | stench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bins | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bins | det |
| 5 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stench | nmod |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 street | det |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 filled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the stench of the bins | the street | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent street=Patient |
Example 2
We held our noses at the stench.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 noses | nmod:poss |
| 4 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 held | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 stench | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stench | det |
| 7 | stench | stench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | We | our noses | the stench | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nose=Theme at stench=Location |
Example 3
A stench rose from the swamp.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rose | det |
| 2 | stench | stench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | compound |
| 3 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 swamp | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 swamp | det |
| 6 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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