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title: crashing — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «crashing» in the school dictionary: A loud noise of things smashing, breaking or falling. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# crashing

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**Who acts:** things, heavy bodies, We, falling tree, horse · **What happens:** smash, break, fall, noise, burst, hear · **To what, where:** things, crashing, bushes, loud crashing, crashings

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A loud noise of things smashing, breaking or falling.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:crashing:m1:1
# text = A loud noise of things smashing, breaking or falling.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	smashing	smash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smash** | gerund | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | gerund | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fall** | gerund | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **noise** |  | things |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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The sound of heavy bodies bursting through things, such as trees or branches.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:crashing:m2:1
# text = The sound of heavy bodies bursting through things, such as trees or branches.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | gerund | heavy bodies *not said here* |  |  | things |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through thing=Location |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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We heard a crashing in the bushes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:crashing:x1:1
# text = We heard a crashing in the bushes.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crashing	crashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | We | a crashing |  | the bushes |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crashing=Stimulus |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The falling tree made a loud crashing.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:crashing:x2:1
# text = The falling tree made a loud crashing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	amod	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	crashing	crashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | the falling tree | a loud crashing |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crashing=Product |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Through the crashings of the branches, the horse ran on.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:crashing:x3:1
# text = Through the crashings of the branches, the horse ran on.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crashings	crashing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run on** | past | the horse |  |  | the crashings of the branches |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crashing=Trajectory |

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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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