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title: brawny — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «brawny» in the school dictionary: Brawny means having big, strong muscles. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# brawny

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**Who acts:** Brawny, brawny farmer, He, brawny giant · **What happens:** mean, have, lift · **To what, where:** big strong muscles, sack, brawny arms, rowing, stone

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Brawny means having big, strong muscles.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brawny:m1:1
# text = Brawny means having big, strong muscles.
1	Brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	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 | **mean** | present | Brawny |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | gerund | Brawny *not said here* | big strong muscles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient |

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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 brawny farmer lifted the sack.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brawny:x1:1
# text = The brawny farmer lifted the sack.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | the brawny farmer | the sack |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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He had brawny arms from rowing.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brawny:x2:1
# text = He had brawny arms from rowing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rowing	rowing	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 | **have** | past | He | brawny arms |  | rowing |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Only a brawny giant could lift the stone.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brawny:x3:1
# text = Only a brawny giant could lift the stone.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | could | a brawny giant | the stone |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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