trounce

Who acts: team, hero, Ivan · What happens: trounce, be, defeat, break · To what, where: someone, them, troll, beast

«trounce» 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: trounce in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To trounce someone is to beat them thoroughly, or to defeat them easily.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trounce	mark
2	trounce	trounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 beat	advcl
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 trounce	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 beat	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 beat	mark
6	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beat	obj
8	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	6 beat	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 defeat	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 defeat	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 defeat	mark
12	defeat	defeat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 beat	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 defeat	obj
14	easily	easily	ADV	_	12 defeat	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trounce	to-infinitive	someone		vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
2	is	present		beat, thoroughly property	tree rules
3	defeat	to-infinitive	them = they	easily property	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

Our team trounced them 9 to 0.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 team	nmod:poss
2	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trounced	nsubj
3	trounced	trounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trounced	obj
5	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 trounced	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 0	case
7	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 9	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trounced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trounce	past	Our team	them = they				9 to 0 obl	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Example 2

The hero trounced the troll.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trounce	past	the hero	the troll					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troll=Patient

Example 3

Ivan trounced the beast with the broken bow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 trounced	nsubj
2	trounced	trounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beast	det
4	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trounced	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 bow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bow	det
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bow	amod
8	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trounced	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trounced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trounce	past	Ivan	the beast				with the broken bow	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent beast=Patient with bow=Instrument
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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