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title: vertigo — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «vertigo» in the school dictionary: Vertigo is a dizzy feeling, as if the world is spinning or you might fall, often when you look down from a high place. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# vertigo

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**Who acts:** Vertigo, world, you, I · **What happens:** be, spin, fall, look down, seize, cry · **To what, where:** dizzy feeling, him, it · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«vertigo» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [vertigo in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/vertigo.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Vertigo is a dizzy feeling, as if the world is spinning or you might fall, often when you look down from a high place.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:vertigo:m1:1
# text = Vertigo is a dizzy feeling, as if the world is spinning or you might fall, often when you look down from a high place.
1	Vertigo	vertigo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Vertigo | a dizzy feeling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spin** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | might | you |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look down** | present | you |  |  |  |  | from a high place; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from place=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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And now Vertigo was to seize Rudy.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:vertigo:x1:1
# text = And now Vertigo was to seize Rudy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	Vertigo	Vertigo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	seize	seize	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Vertigo |  |  |  | now | seize *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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«Seize him, indeed,» cried Vertigo; «I cannot do it.»

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:vertigo:x2:1
# text = «Seize him, indeed,» cried Vertigo; «I cannot do it.»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Seize	seize	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	Vertigo	Vertigo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | can | I | it |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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