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title: buffeting — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «buffeting» in the school dictionary: Hitting or pushing again and again, as wind or waves do; knocking about roughly. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# buffeting

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**Who acts:** Hitting, ship, wind, he · **What happens:** hit, push, knock about, buffet, keep, sleep · **To what, where:** storm, tent

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«buffeting» 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: [buffeting in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/buffeting.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Hitting or pushing again and again, as wind or waves do; knocking about roughly.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:buffeting:m1:1
# text = Hitting or pushing again and again, as wind or waves do; knocking about roughly.
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
14	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **knock about** | present · do-support | Hitting |  |  |  |  | roughly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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 {#x1}

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The ship was buffeting in the storm.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:buffeting:x1:1
# text = The ship was buffeting in the storm.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	buffeting	buffet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buffet** | past · progressive | the ship |  |  | the storm |  |  | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The wind kept buffeting the tent.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:buffeting:x2:1
# text = The wind kept buffeting the tent.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	buffeting	buffet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buffet** | gerund | the wind *not said here* | the tent |  |  |  |  | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Destination |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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After his buffetings with the deep, he slept.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:buffeting:x3:1
# text = After his buffetings with the deep, he slept.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	buffetings	buffeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | he |  |  |  | after his buffetings with the deep |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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