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title: drenching — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «drenching» in the school dictionary: a heavy soaking with water; very wet. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# drenching

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**Who acts:** drenching rain, his, he, We · **What happens:** drench, flood, sit, get, walk · **To what, where:** road, drenching storm

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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a heavy soaking with water; very wet.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drenching:m1:1
# text = a heavy soaking with water; very wet.
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	soaking	soaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The drenching rain flooded the road.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drenching:x1:1
# text = The drenching rain flooded the road.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	drenching	drench	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flooded	flood	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drench** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flood** | past | the drenching rain | the road |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent road=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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After his drenching he sat by the fire to get warm.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drenching:x2:1
# text = After his drenching he sat by the fire to get warm.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drenching	drench	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drench** | gerund | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | he |  |  |  |  | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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We walked home in the drenching storm.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drenching:x3:1
# text = We walked home in the drenching storm.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	drenching	drench	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **walk** | past | We |  |  | the drenching storm |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=Trajectory |
| 2 | **drench** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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