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title: adventurer — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «adventurer» in the school dictionary: A person who goes looking for danger, excitement or new discoveries, often on long or risky journeys. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# adventurer

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**Who acts:** person, He, adventurers, brave adventurers · **What happens:** go, look, think, set out, reach · **To what, where:** long journeys, me, sea, island

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«adventurer» in the school dictionary: its meaning 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: [adventurer in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/adventurer.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A person who goes looking for danger, excitement or new discoveries, often on long or risky journeys.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:adventurer:m1:1
# text = A person who goes looking for danger, excitement or new discoveries, often on long or risky journeys.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	discoveries	discovery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	risky	risky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | a person |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | a person *not said here* |  |  | long journeys |  | for danger and excitement or new discoveries | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for danger=Theme on journey=Location |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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He would think me an adventurer.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:adventurer:x1:1
# text = He would think me an adventurer.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	adventurer	adventurer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | would | He | me |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme adventurer=Attribute |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The adventurers set out across the sea.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:adventurer:x2:1
# text = The adventurers set out across the sea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adventurers	adventurer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | the adventurers |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across sea=Initial\_Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Only brave adventurers reached the island.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:adventurer:x3:1
# text = Only brave adventurers reached the island.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	adventurers	adventurer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | brave adventurers | the island |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=Theme |

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**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.

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