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title: penknife — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «penknife» in the Judaism dictionary: A small pocket knife with a folding blade, once used to cut quill pens. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# penknife

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**What happens:** use, cut · **To what, where:** small pocket knife, quill pens

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A small pocket knife with a folding blade, once used to cut quill pens.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:penknife:m1:1
# text = A small pocket knife with a folding blade, once used to cut quill pens.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	folding	folding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	quill	quill	NOUN	NN	_	15	compound	_	_
15	pens	pen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | a small pocket knife with a folding blade *not said here* |  |  |  | once *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cut** | to-infinitive |  | quill pens |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pen=Product |

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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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