whir
Who acts: whir, wings, wheels, clock · What happens: be, make, go round, whir, go, begin · To what, where: soft quick buzzing sound, whir, wings, air
«whir» 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: whir in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A whir is a soft, quick buzzing sound made by wheels or wings going round.
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 whir | det |
| 2 | whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sound | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sound | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 soft | punct |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sound | amod |
| 8 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | compound |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sound | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 wheels | case |
| 12 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 wings | cc |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wheels | conj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 wings | acl |
| 16 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 going | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sound | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a whir | a soft quick buzzing sound | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a soft quick buzzing sound not said here | by wheels or wings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | go round | gerund | wings not said here | round property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
To whir is to make that sound.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 whir | mark |
| 2 | whir | whir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | csubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 sound | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whir | to-infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | make property | tree rules |
Example 1
The wheels went whir-r-r.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wheels | det |
| 2 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 whir | punct |
| 6 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 r | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 r | punct |
| 8 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the wheels | whir | r r obl | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whir=Theme |
Example 2
A bird's wings whirred in the air.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wings | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bird | case |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | whirred | whir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wings | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whirred | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wings | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whir | participle | a bird's wings not said here | the air | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
Example 3
The clock began to whir.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 clock | det |
| 2 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 whir | mark |
| 5 | whir | whir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the clock | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | whir | to-infinitive | the clock not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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