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title: beget — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «beget» in the school dictionary: To become the father of a child; in old tales, to produce children or new things. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# beget

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**Who acts:** old tales, old king, Gods, Greed · **What happens:** become, produce, beget · **To what, where:** father, children, seven sons, heroes, trouble

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To become the father of a child; in old tales, to produce children or new things.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:beget:m1:1
# text = To become the father of a child; in old tales, to produce children or new things.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	produce	produce	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | to-infinitive | old tales *not said here* | the father of a child |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **produce** | to-infinitive | old tales | children or new things |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Result |

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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 old king begot seven sons.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:beget:x1:1
# text = The old king begot seven sons.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	begot	beget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **beget** | past | the old king | seven sons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Gods in the tales begot heroes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:beget:x2:1
# text = Gods in the tales begot heroes.
1	Gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	begot	beget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **beget** | past | Gods in the tales | heroes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Greed often begets trouble.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:beget:x3:1
# text = Greed often begets trouble.
1	Greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	begets	beget	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beget** | present | Greed | trouble |  |  |  | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient |

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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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