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title: civilized — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «civilized» in the school dictionary: Living in an organised society with laws, good manners, towns and government, not wild or rough. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# civilized

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**Who acts:** it, witches, Land · **What happens:** live, be, leave, have, not be · **To what, where:** organised society, civilized country, civilized countries, witches

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Living in an organised society with laws, good manners, towns and government, not wild or rough.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:civilized:m1:1
# text = Living in an organised society with laws, good manners, towns and government, not wild or rough.
1	Living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	organised	organised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  | a organised society |  | with laws and good manners and towns and government | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in society=Location |

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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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Is it a civilized country?

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:civilized:x1:1
# text = Is it a civilized country?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	civilized	civilized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a civilized country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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In civilized countries there are no witches left.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:civilized:x2:1
# text = In civilized countries there are no witches left.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	civilized	civilized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | no witches |  |  | civilized countries; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | no witches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The Land of Oz has never been civilized.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:civilized:x3:1
# text = The Land of Oz has never been civilized.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	civilized	civilized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Land of Oz |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | participle | the Land of Oz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | civilized *property* | tree rules |

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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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