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title: alveolar — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «alveolar» in the Judaism dictionary: Made by touching the tongue to the ridge just behind the upper teeth. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# alveolar

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**What happens:** make, touch · **To what, where:** tongue, upper teeth

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Made by touching the tongue to the ridge just behind the upper teeth.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:alveolar:m1:1
# text = Made by touching the tongue to the ridge just behind the upper teeth.
1	Made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ridge	ridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund |  | the tongue |  | the upper teeth |  | to the ridge | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tongue=Co-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.

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**Text:** the Judaism 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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