suffocation

Who acts: Suffocation, heat, smoke, room · What happens: be, breathe, choke, cause, feel · To what, where: feeling, suffocation

«suffocation» 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: suffocation in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Suffocation is being unable to breathe properly, or the feeling of being choked by heat, smoke or a crowd.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suffocation	suffocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unable	cop
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 unable	cop
4	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 breathe	mark
6	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unable	xcomp
7	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 breathe	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feeling	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 feeling	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feeling	det
11	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unable	parataxis
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 choked	mark
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 choked	aux:pass
14	choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 feeling	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 heat	case
16	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 choked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 smoke	punct
18	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heat	conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 crowd	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 crowd	det
21	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heat	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unable	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Suffocation		unable property	tree rules
2	breathe	to-infinitive	Suffocation not said here		properly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	choke	gerund · passive	heat and smoke or a crowd	the feeling not said here		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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 smoke caused suffocation.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smoke	det
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	suffocation	suffocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

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

Example 2

The room was so full that it felt like suffocation.

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	5 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 full	advmod
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 felt	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 felt	nsubj
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	advcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 suffocation	case
10	suffocation	suffocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 felt	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 full	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the room					full property	tree rules
2	feel	past	room					like suffocation	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like suffocation=Theme

Example 3

The heat was close to suffocation.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heat	det
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 close	cop
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 suffocation	case
6	suffocation	suffocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 close	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the heat					to suffocation; close property	tree rules

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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