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title: sulphurous — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «sulphurous» in the school dictionary: Sulphurous means smelling of sulphur, a yellow substance with a strong, rotten-egg smell, or full of its fumes. (Spelt sulfurous in America.). Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# sulphurous

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**Who acts:** Sulphurous, smell, volcano, air, Clouds · **What happens:** mean, smell, fume, spelt, give off, be · **To what, where:** sulphurous fumes, pool, sulphurous steam

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Sulphurous means smelling of sulphur, a yellow substance with a strong, rotten-egg smell, or full of its fumes. (Spelt sulfurous in America.).

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*Sentence 1:* Sulphurous means smelling of sulphur, a yellow substance with a strong, rotten-egg smell, or full of its fumes.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sulphurous:m1:1
# text = Sulphurous means smelling of sulphur, a yellow substance with a strong, rotten-egg smell, or full of its fumes.
1	Sulphurous	Sulphurous	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fumes	fume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Sulphurous |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **smell** *not said to happen* | gerund | Sulphurous *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of sulphur | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of sulphur=Theme |
| 3 | **fume** |  | smell |  |  |  |  |  | nom fume «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=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.

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*Sentence 2:* (Spelt sulfurous in America.).

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sulphurous:m1:2
# text = (Spelt sulfurous in America.).
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Spelt	spelt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	sulfurous	sulfurous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spelt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The volcano gave off sulphurous fumes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sulphurous:x1:1
# text = The volcano gave off sulphurous fumes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	sulphurous	sulphurous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fumes	fume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **give off** | past | the volcano | sulphurous fumes |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source fume=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The air in the cave was sulphurous.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sulphurous:x2:1
# text = The air in the cave was sulphurous.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	sulphurous	sulphurous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the air in the cave |  |  |  |  | sulphurous *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Clouds of sulphurous steam rose from the pool.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sulphurous:x3:1
# text = Clouds of sulphurous steam rose from the pool.
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	sulphurous	sulphurous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | Clouds of sulphurous steam |  |  | the pool |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pool=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cloud** |  |  | sulphurous steam |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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