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title: bide — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «bide» in the school dictionary: To bide is to stay or live in a place; to bide your time is to wait patiently until the right moment. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# bide

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**Who acts:** time, you, cat, chance · **What happens:** bide, be, live, not bide, come · **To what, where:** place, home, barn

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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To bide is to stay or live in a place; to bide your time is to wait patiently until the right moment.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bide:m1:1
# text = To bide is to stay or live in a place; to bide your time is to wait patiently until the right moment.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bide	bide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bide	bide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	until	until	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | stay *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | infinitive |  |  |  | a place |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 4 | **bide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | your time |  |  |  | moment | patiently, wait *property* | 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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Why didn't you bide at home?

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bide:x1:1
# text = Why didn't you bide at home?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bide	bide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bide** | past · do-support | you |  |  | home |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The cat bides in the barn all winter.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bide:x2:1
# text = The cat bides in the barn all winter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bides	bide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bide** | present | the cat |  |  | the barn | winter |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Bide your time and the chance will come.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bide:x3:1
# text = Bide your time and the chance will come.
1	Bide	bide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bide** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | future | the chance |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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