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title: avaricious — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «avaricious» in the school dictionary: Greedy for money and riches, always wanting more. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# avaricious

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**Who acts:** avaricious king, avaricious man, avaricious vizier · **What happens:** want, hoard, not have · **To what, where:** more, gold, enough, jewel

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Greedy for money and riches, always wanting more.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:avaricious:m1:1
# text = Greedy for money and riches, always wanting more.
1	Greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | gerund |  | more |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The avaricious king hoarded his gold.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:avaricious:x1:1
# text = The avaricious king hoarded his gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	avaricious	avaricious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hoarded	hoard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	gold	gold	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 | **hoard** | past | the avaricious king | king's gold |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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An avaricious man never has enough.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:avaricious:x2:1
# text = An avaricious man never has enough.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	avaricious	avaricious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present | a avaricious man | enough |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The avaricious vizier wanted every jewel.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:avaricious:x3:1
# text = The avaricious vizier wanted every jewel.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	avaricious	avaricious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vizier	vizier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	jewel	jewel	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 | **want** | past | the avaricious vizier | every jewel |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jewel=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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