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title: bream — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «bream» in the school dictionary: A bream is a flat, silvery fish that lives in rivers, lakes and seas. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# bream

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**Who acts:** bream, flat silvery fish, I, red bream, thief, Kumbal · **What happens:** be, live, swim, think, steal, have · **To what, where:** flat silvery fish, rivers, old bridge, thief, hook, better luck · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A bream is a flat, silvery fish that lives in rivers, lakes and seas.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bream:m1:1
# text = A bream is a flat, silvery fish that lives in rivers, lakes and seas.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bream	bream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	silvery	silvery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a bream | a flat silvery fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | a flat silvery fish |  |  | rivers and lakes and seas |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=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 -->
The bream swam slowly under the old bridge.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bream:x1:1
# text = The bream swam slowly under the old bridge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bream	bream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | the bream |  |  | the old bridge |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bridge=Trajectory |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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I think the red bream must be the thief who stole the hook!

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bream:x2:1
# text = I think the red bream must be the thief who stole the hook!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bream	bream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | must | the red bream | the thief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **steal** | past | the thief | the hook |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hook=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kumbal, the bream, had no better luck than the rest.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bream:x3:1
# text = Kumbal, the bream, had no better luck than the rest.
1	Kumbal	Kumbal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bream	bream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Kumbal | better luck |  |  |  | than the rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient |

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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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