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title: astir — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «astir» in the school dictionary: Up and moving, out of bed and busy, with people or animals awake and active. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# astir

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**Who acts:** All, bird, village, you · **What happens:** move, be, not be · **To what, where:** bed

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«astir» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 4 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: [astir in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/astir.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Up and moving, out of bed and busy, with people or animals awake and active.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:astir:m1:1
# text = Up and moving, out of bed and busy, with people or animals awake and active.
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  | bed |  | with people or animals | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme out bed=Trajectory |

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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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All were astir early that morning.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:astir:x1:1
# text = All were astir early that morning.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	astir	astir	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | All |  |  |  | morning | astir, early *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Not even a bird was astir.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:astir:x2:1
# text = Not even a bird was astir.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	astir	astir	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | a bird |  |  |  |  | astir *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The village was astir before dawn.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:astir:x3:1
# text = The village was astir before dawn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	astir	astir	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the village |  |  |  | dawn | astir *property* | tree rules |

## Example 4 {#x4}

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Are you up and astir yet?

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:astir:x4:1
# text = Are you up and astir yet?
1	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	astir	astir	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  | yet | astir *property* | 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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