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title: anchovy — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «anchovy» in the school dictionary: An anchovy is a small, thin, salty fish, often sold in tins or used on pizza. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# anchovy

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**Who acts:** anchovy, cook, Anchovies · **What happens:** be, sell, use, fry, taste · **To what, where:** small thin salty fish, tins, pizza, mullets, one fish

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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An anchovy is a small, thin, salty fish, often sold in tins or used on pizza.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:anchovy:m1:1
# text = An anchovy is a small, thin, salty fish, often sold in tins or used on pizza.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	anchovy	anchovy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	tins	tin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a anchovy | a small thin salty fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | participle | a anchovy *not said here* |  |  | tins |  | often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** | participle | a anchovy *not said here* |  |  | pizza |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The cook fried the mullets and the anchovies in hot oil.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:anchovy:x1:1
# text = The cook fried the mullets and the anchovies in hot oil.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fried	fry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mullets	mullet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	anchovies	anchovy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fry** | past | the cook | the mullets and the anchovies |  |  |  | in hot oil | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mullet=Patient in oil=Instrument |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Anchovies taste very salty on a pizza.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:anchovy:x2:1
# text = Anchovies taste very salty on a pizza.
1	Anchovies	anchovy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	taste	taste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | present | Anchovies |  |  | a pizza |  | salty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Each anchovy in the tin is one fish.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:anchovy:x3:1
# text = Each anchovy in the tin is one fish.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	anchovy	anchovy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | each anchovy in the tin | one fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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