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title: antidote — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «antidote» in the school dictionary: A medicine or substance that stops a poison from harming you. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# antidote

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**Who acts:** substance, doctor, Mum, walk · **What happens:** stop, harm, cure, remove, give, say · **To what, where:** poison, you, bad effect, antidote, him · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«antidote» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 2 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: [antidote in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/antidote.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A medicine or substance that stops a poison from harming you.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:antidote:m1:1
# text = A medicine or substance that stops a poison from harming you.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	harming	harm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | substance | a poison |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality poison=Eventuality |
| 2 | **harm** | gerund | substance *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Anything that cures or removes a bad effect, such as a sad feeling.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:antidote:m2:1
# text = Anything that cures or removes a bad effect, such as a sad feeling.
1	Anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cures	cure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	removes	remove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **remove** | present |  | a bad effect |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The doctor gave him an antidote for the snake bite.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:antidote:x1:1
# text = The doctor gave him an antidote for the snake bite.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	antidote	antidote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the doctor | a antidote | him *= he* |  |  | for the snake bite | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient antidote=Theme for bite=Asset |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Mum said a walk is the antidote to boredom.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:antidote:x2:1
# text = Mum said a walk is the antidote to boredom.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	antidote	antidote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	boredom	boredom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a walk | the antidote |  |  |  | to boredom | 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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