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title: caduceus — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «caduceus» in the school dictionary: A staff with two snakes twined around it and wings at the top, carried by the messenger of the gods in old Greek stories. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# caduceus

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**Who acts:** staff, messenger, Heralds · **What happens:** twine, carry, curl, show, come · **To what, where:** it, top, caduceus, two snakes, staff, peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A staff with two snakes twined around it and wings at the top, carried by the messenger of the gods in old Greek stories.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:caduceus:m1:1
# text = A staff with two snakes twined around it and wings at the top, carried by the messenger of the gods in old Greek stories.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	twined	twine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twine** | past | a staff with two snakes |  |  | it |  | at the top | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Destination |
| 2 | **carry** | participle |  | the top *not said here* |  |  |  | by the messenger of the gods in old Greek stories | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 messenger of the gods carried a caduceus.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:caduceus:x1:1
# text = The messenger of the gods carried a caduceus.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	caduceus	caduceus	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 | **carry** | past | the messenger of the gods | a caduceus |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caduceus=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Its two snakes curled round the staff.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:caduceus:x2:1
# text = Its two snakes curled round the staff.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curl** | participle |  | Its two snakes *not said here* |  | the staff |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round staff=Destination |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Heralds carried it to show they came in peace.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:caduceus:x3:1
# text = Heralds carried it to show they came in peace.
1	Heralds	herald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Heralds | it |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | Heralds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | past | Heralds *= herald* |  |  | peace |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=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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