stifling

Who acts: Stifling, It, you, room, we, air · What happens: mean, be, breathe, make, feel, trap · To what, where: you, stifling hot day, window

«stifling» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: stifling in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Stifling means very hot and airless, so that it is hard to breathe.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stifling	stifling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 airless	cc
6	airless	airless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hot	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hard	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 hard	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hard	expl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hard	cop
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 breathe	mark
14	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hard	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Stifling	hot property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present		hard property	tree rules
3	breathe	to-infinitive			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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

It can also mean making you feel trapped or held back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 mean	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 making	obj
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 making	xcomp
8	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 feel	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 held	cc
10	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 trapped	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 held	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	can	It		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make not said to happen	gerund		you	tree rules
3	feel not said to happen	infinitive	you not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	trap	participle	you not said here		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	hold back	participle	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 1

It was a stifling hot day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
4	stifling	stifling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	compound
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a stifling hot day					tree rules

Example 2

The room was stifling, so we opened the window.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stifling	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stifling	aux
4	stifling	stifle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 opened	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 opened	advmod
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 opened	nsubj
8	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stifling	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stifling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stifle	past · progressive	the room						vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient
2	open	past	we	the window					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme

Example 3

The air in the cave was stifling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stifling	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cave	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cave	det
5	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 air	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stifling	aux
7	stifling	stifle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stifling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stifle	past · progressive	the air in the cave						vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient

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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