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title: besprinkle — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «besprinkle» in the school dictionary: To scatter small drops or bits over something. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# besprinkle

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**Who acts:** Sugar, Blood · **What happens:** scatter, besprinkle · **To what, where:** small drops, something, top, ice

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«besprinkle» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [besprinkle in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/besprinkle.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To scatter small drops or bits over something.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:besprinkle:m1:1
# text = To scatter small drops or bits over something.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	scatter	scatter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	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 | **scatter** | to-infinitive |  | small drops or bits |  | something |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme over something=Destination |

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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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Sugar besprinkled the top of the cake.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:besprinkle:x1:1
# text = Sugar besprinkled the top of the cake.
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	besprinkled	besprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **besprinkle** | participle | Sugar | the top of the cake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Blood besprinkled the ice.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:besprinkle:x2:1
# text = Blood besprinkled the ice.
1	Blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	besprinkled	besprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **besprinkle** | participle | Blood | the ice |  |  |  |  | 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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