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title: hullabaloo — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «hullabaloo» in the school dictionary: A hullabaloo is a great noise and fuss, with shouting and excitement. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# hullabaloo

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**Who acts:** hullabaloo, circus, party · **What happens:** be, come, make · **To what, where:** great noise, town, hullabaloo, terrible hullabaloo

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A hullabaloo is a great noise and fuss, with shouting and excitement.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hullabaloo:m1:1
# text = A hullabaloo is a great noise and fuss, with shouting and excitement.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hullabaloo	hullabaloo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a hullabaloo | a great noise and fuss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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There was a hullabaloo when the circus came to town.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hullabaloo:x1:1
# text = There was a hullabaloo when the circus came to town.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hullabaloo	hullabaloo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	circus	circus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a hullabaloo |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the circus |  |  | town |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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What is all this hullabaloo about?

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hullabaloo:x2:1
# text = What is all this hullabaloo about?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	hullabaloo	hullabaloo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | all hullabaloo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The party made a terrible hullabaloo.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:hullabaloo:x3:1
# text = The party made a terrible hullabaloo.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hullabaloo	hullabaloo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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 | **make** | past | the party | a terrible hullabaloo |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hullabaloo=Product |

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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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