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title: cavalry — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «cavalry» in the school dictionary: Cavalry are soldiers who fight on horses. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# cavalry

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**Who acts:** Cavalry soldiers, cavalry · **What happens:** be, fight, ride, prance, have, move · **To what, where:** Cavalry soldiers, hill, cavalry, armour

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Cavalry are soldiers who fight on horses.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cavalry:m1:1
# text = Cavalry are soldiers who fight on horses.
1	Cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	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 | **is a** | present |  | Cavalry soldiers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | present | Cavalry soldiers |  |  |  |  | on horses | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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 cavalry rode over the hill at dawn.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cavalry:x1:1
# text = The cavalry rode over the hill at dawn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dawn	dawn	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 | **ride** | past | the cavalry |  |  | the hill | dawn |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hill=Trajectory |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The king's cavalry pranced in armour.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cavalry:x2:1
# text = The king's cavalry pranced in armour.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	pranced	prance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prance** | participle |  | the king's cavalry *not said here* |  | armour |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in armour=Trajectory |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The cavalry had little time to move aside.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cavalry:x3:1
# text = The cavalry had little time to move aside.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the cavalry |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **move** | to-infinitive | the cavalry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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