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title: benefactress — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «benefactress» in the school dictionary: A benefactress is a woman or girl who helps others by giving gifts or kindness. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# benefactress

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**Who acts:** benefactress, woman girl, hungry boy, I, good queen · **What happens:** be, help, give, thank, not let, come · **To what, where:** woman girl, others, gifts, kind benefactress, benefactress

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A benefactress is a woman or girl who helps others by giving gifts or kindness.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:benefactress:m1:1
# text = A benefactress is a woman or girl who helps others by giving gifts or kindness.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	benefactress	benefactress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a benefactress | woman girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | woman girl | others |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | woman girl *not said here* | gifts or kindness |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=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 hungry boy thanked his kind benefactress.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:benefactress:x1:1
# text = The hungry boy thanked his kind benefactress.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thanked	thank	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	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	benefactress	benefactress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the hungry boy | boy's kind benefactress |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benefactress=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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I would never let my benefactress come to harm.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:benefactress:x2:1
# text = I would never let my benefactress come to harm.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	benefactress	benefactress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | would | I | my benefactress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | my benefactress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **harm** | to-infinitive | my benefactress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The good queen was a benefactress to the poor.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:benefactress:x3:1
# text = The good queen was a benefactress to the poor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	benefactress	benefactress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the good queen | a benefactress |  |  |  | to the poor | 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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