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title: clank — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «clank» in the school dictionary: To clank is to make a short, loud metal sound, like iron or glasses touching: the sword clanked against his leg. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# clank

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**Who acts:** clank, glasses, sword, chains, prisoner, We · **What happens:** be, touch, clank, move · **To what, where:** leg, mugs, old robot, floor

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To clank is to make a short, loud metal sound, like iron or glasses touching: the sword clanked against his leg.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:clank:m1:1
# text = To clank is to make a short, loud metal sound, like iron or glasses touching: the sword clanked against his leg.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	clank	clank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	clanked	clank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | clank |  |  |  |  | make *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund | glasses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **clank** | past | the sword |  |  | sword's leg |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against leg=Location |

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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 chains clanked as the prisoner moved.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:clank:x1:1
# text = The chains clanked as the prisoner moved.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	clanked	clank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clank** | past | the chains |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | past | the prisoner |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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We clanked our mugs together.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:clank:x2:1
# text = We clanked our mugs together.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	clanked	clank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mugs	mug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clank** | past | We | our mugs |  |  |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mug=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The old robot clanked across the floor.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:clank:x3:1
# text = The old robot clanked across the floor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	clanked	clank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clank** | participle |  | the old robot *not said here* |  | the floor |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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