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title: begrudge — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «begrudge» in the school dictionary: To feel unhappy that someone has or gets something, and wish they did not have it: «why do you begrudge me my playmates?». Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# begrudge

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**Who acts:** someone, they, you, She, I · **What happens:** feel, have, get, not have, begrudge, not begrudge · **To what, where:** something, it, me, new bike, sister, him · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To feel unhappy that someone has or gets something, and wish they did not have it: «why do you begrudge me my playmates?».

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:begrudge:m1:1
# text = To feel unhappy that someone has or gets something, and wish they did not have it: «why do you begrudge me my playmates?».
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	begrudge	begrudge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	playmates	playmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | present | someone *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | they | it |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **begrudge** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 begrudged her sister the new bike.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:begrudge:x1:1
# text = She begrudged her sister the new bike.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	begrudged	begrudge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begrudge** | past | She | the new bike | her sister |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Do not begrudge him a small treat.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:begrudge:x2:1
# text = Do not begrudge him a small treat.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	begrudge	begrudge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **begrudge** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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I begrudge every minute spent on that chore.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:begrudge:x3:1
# text = I begrudge every minute spent on that chore.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	begrudge	begrudge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	chore	chore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begrudge** | present | I |  |  |  | minute |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spend** | participle |  | every minute *not said here* |  |  |  | on that chore *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on chore=Goal |

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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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