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title: broil — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «broil» in the school dictionary: To broil is to cook food over or under a hot flame or fire. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# broil

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**Who acts:** broil, Mum, you, It, day · **What happens:** broil, be, let, bring · **To what, where:** hot flame, noisy quarrel, fish, grill, sausages broil, broils

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«broil» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [broil in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/broil.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To broil is to cook food over or under a hot flame or fire.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:broil:m1:1
# text = To broil is to cook food over or under a hot flame or fire.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	broil	broil	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	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **broil** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | a hot flame or fire |  | cook *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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A broil is a noisy quarrel or fight.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:broil:m2:1
# text = A broil is a noisy quarrel or fight.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	broil	broil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a broil | a noisy quarrel or fight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Mum broils the fish under the grill.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:broil:x1:1
# text = Mum broils the fish under the grill.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broils	broil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grill	grill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **broil** | present | Mum | the fish |  | the grill |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Let the sausages broil until brown.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:broil:x2:1
# text = Let the sausages broil until brown.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sausages	sausage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	broil	broil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	until	until	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sausages broil |  |  | until brown |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broil=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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It is sad that such a day should bring broils and fights.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:broil:x3:1
# text = It is sad that such a day should bring broils and fights.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	broils	broil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | should | such day | broils and fights |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent broil=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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