---
title: whir — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «whir» in the school dictionary: A whir is a soft, quick buzzing sound made by wheels or wings going round. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whir/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/) / [W](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/) / whir

# whir

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** whir, wings, wheels, clock · **What happens:** be, make, go round, whir, go, begin · **To what, where:** soft quick buzzing sound, whir, wings, air

<!-- .vabout -->
«whir» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [whir in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/whir.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A whir is a soft, quick buzzing sound made by wheels or wings going round.

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whir:m1:1
# text = A whir is a soft, quick buzzing sound made by wheels or wings going round.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whir	whir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a whir | a soft quick buzzing sound |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a soft quick buzzing sound *not said here* |  |  |  | by wheels or wings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **go round** | gerund | wings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To whir is to make that sound.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whir:m2:1
# text = To whir is to make that sound.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	whir	whir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whir** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | make *property* | tree rules |

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The wheels went whir-r-r.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whir:x1:1
# text = The wheels went whir-r-r.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whir	whir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the wheels | whir |  |  |  | r r *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whir=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A bird's wings whirred in the air.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whir:x2:1
# text = A bird's wings whirred in the air.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	whirred	whir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whir** | participle |  | a bird's wings *not said here* |  | the air |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The clock began to whir.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:whir:x3:1
# text = The clock began to whir.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	whir	whir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the clock |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **whir** | to-infinitive | the clock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [whippy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whippy/)
- next →: [whirl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whirl/)
- ↑ back to [W in school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/)