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title: tumult — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «tumult» in the school dictionary: A tumult is a loud, noisy, confused disturbance, with shouting and people rushing about. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# tumult

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**Who acts:** tumult, people, playground, bell, banqueting hall, nobody · **What happens:** be, rush, ring, hear · **To what, where:** loud noisy confused disturbance, tumult, bugle call

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A tumult is a loud, noisy, confused disturbance, with shouting and people rushing about.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tumult:m1:1
# text = A tumult is a loud, noisy, confused disturbance, with shouting and people rushing about.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a tumult | a loud noisy confused disturbance and shouting and people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 playground was in tumult when the bell rang.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tumult:x1:1
# text = The playground was in tumult when the bell rang.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the playground |  |  | tumult |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ring** | past | the bell |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The banqueting hall was in tumult.

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the banqueting hall |  |  | tumult |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Amid the tumult, nobody heard the bugle call.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tumult:x3:1
# text = Amid the tumult, nobody heard the bugle call.
1	Amid	amid	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bugle	bugle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | nobody | the bugle call |  |  |  | amid the tumult | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus |

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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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