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title: plosive — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «plosive» in the Judaism dictionary: A speech sound made by shutting off the air and letting it burst out, like p or t. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# plosive

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**Who acts:** air · **What happens:** make, shut off, let, burst out · **To what, where:** speech sound, air

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A speech sound made by shutting off the air and letting it burst out, like p or t.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:plosive:m1:1
# text = A speech sound made by shutting off the air and letting it burst out, like p or t.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	shutting	shut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	t.	t.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | a speech sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **shut off** | gerund |  | the air |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | gerund |  | air |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burst out** | infinitive | air *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like p or t. | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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