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title: clave — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «clave» in the Early Modern English dictionary: Either stuck fast to something, or split apart. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# clave

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** split

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«clave» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil, 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: [clave in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/clave.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Either stuck fast to something, or split apart.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:clave:m1:1
# text = Either stuck fast to something, or split apart.
1	Either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc:preconj	_	_
2	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	split	split	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**Text:** the Early Modern English dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova; its examples quote public-domain texts. **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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