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title: bilberry — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «bilberry» in the school dictionary: A small wild berry, dark blue and juicy, growing on a low shrub on hills and moors. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# bilberry

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**Who acts:** small wild berry, We, Bilberries · **What happens:** grow, pick, stain · **To what, where:** low shrub, bilberries, moor, fingers, heather

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A small wild berry, dark blue and juicy, growing on a low shrub on hills and moors.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bilberry:m1:1
# text = A small wild berry, dark blue and juicy, growing on a low shrub on hills and moors.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	juicy	juicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shrub	shrub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund | a small wild berry *not said here* |  |  | a low shrub on hills and moors |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shrub=Location |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
We picked bilberries on the moor.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bilberry:x1:1
# text = We picked bilberries on the moor.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bilberries	bilberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | past | We | bilberries |  | the moor |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bilberry=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Her fingers were stained blue with bilberry juice.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bilberry:x2:1
# text = Her fingers were stained blue with bilberry juice.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	bilberry	bilberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stain** | past · passive |  | Her fingers |  |  |  | with bilberry juice; blue *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with juice=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Bilberries grow wild among the heather.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bilberry:x3:1
# text = Bilberries grow wild among the heather.
1	Bilberries	bilberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heather	heather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Bilberries |  |  | the heather |  | wild *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among heather=Location |

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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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