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title: bannock — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «bannock» in the school dictionary: A bannock is a round, flat cake of oatmeal or barley bread, baked on a griddle or in an oven, eaten mainly in Scotland. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# bannock

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**Who acts:** bannock, She, I · **What happens:** be, bake, eat, like · **To what, where:** round flat cake, griddle, Scotland, warm bannock, bannock

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A bannock is a round, flat cake of oatmeal or barley bread, baked on a griddle or in an oven, eaten mainly in Scotland.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bannock:m1:1
# text = A bannock is a round, flat cake of oatmeal or barley bread, baked on a griddle or in an oven, eaten mainly in Scotland.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bannock	bannock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	oatmeal	oatmeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	griddle	griddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
25	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a bannock | a round flat cake |  |  |  | of oatmeal or barley bread | tree rules |
| 2 | **bake** | participle | a bannock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a griddle or a oven | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on griddle=Instrument |
| 3 | **eat** | participle |  | a griddle or a oven *not said here* |  | Scotland |  | mainly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «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}

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She baked a warm bannock for her son.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bannock:x1:1
# text = She baked a warm bannock for her son.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	baked	bake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bannock	bannock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | past | She | a warm bannock |  |  |  | for her son | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bannock=Material for son=Beneficiary |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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I like a bannock with cheese.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bannock:x2:1
# text = I like a bannock with cheese.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bannock	bannock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | I | a bannock |  |  |  | with cheese | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bannock=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The bannock was round and golden.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bannock:x3:1
# text = The bannock was round and golden.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bannock	bannock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	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 bannock |  |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the bannock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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