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title: capacious — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «capacious» in the school dictionary: Capacious means having a lot of room inside; able to hold a great deal. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# capacious

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**Who acts:** Capacious, capacious bag, our, hall, thousand people, giant · **What happens:** mean, have, hold, shop, be, sit · **To what, where:** lot, great deal, shopping, hall, fowl

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Capacious means having a lot of room inside; able to hold a great deal.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:capacious:m1:1
# text = Capacious means having a lot of room inside; able to hold a great deal.
1	Capacious	Capacious	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Capacious |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | gerund | Capacious *not said here* | a lot of room |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
| 3 | **hold** | to-infinitive | Capacious *not said here* | a great deal |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme |

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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 capacious bag held all our shopping.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:capacious:x1:1
# text = The capacious bag held all our shopping.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	capacious	capacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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 | **hold** | participle | the capacious bag *not said here* | our shopping |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shopping=Theme |
| 2 | **shop** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom shopping «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The hall was so capacious that a thousand people could sit in it.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:capacious:x2:1
# text = The hall was so capacious that a thousand people could sit in it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	capacious	capacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the hall |  |  |  |  | capacious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | could | thousand people |  |  | hall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The giant swallowed the fowl with his capacious mouth.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:capacious:x3:1
# text = The giant swallowed the fowl with his capacious mouth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	capacious	capacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | past | the giant | the fowl |  |  |  | with giant's capacious mouth | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=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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