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title: brooch — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «brooch» in the school dictionary: A brooch is a piece of jewellery with a pin, worn to fasten or decorate clothes. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# brooch

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**Who acts:** brooch, stranger, king, She · **What happens:** be, wear, fasten, decorate, give, put away · **To what, where:** piece, clothes, silver brooch, cloak, golden brooch, her

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A brooch is a piece of jewellery with a pin, worn to fasten or decorate clothes.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brooch:m1:1
# text = A brooch is a piece of jewellery with a pin, worn to fasten or decorate clothes.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brooch	brooch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	jewellery	jewellery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	decorate	decorate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a brooch | a piece |  |  |  | of jewellery with a pin | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fasten** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **decorate** | infinitive |  | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Destination |

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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 stranger wore a silver brooch on his cloak.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brooch:x1:1
# text = The stranger wore a silver brooch on his cloak.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brooch	brooch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | the stranger | a silver brooch |  | stranger's cloak |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brooch=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The king gave her a golden brooch.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brooch:x2:1
# text = The king gave her a golden brooch.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	brooch	brooch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the king | a golden brooch | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient brooch=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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She put the brooch away in a box.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:brooch:x3:1
# text = She put the brooch away in a box.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brooch	brooch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put away** | past | She | the brooch |  | a box |  | away *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brooch=Theme in box=Destination |

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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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