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title: cobble — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «cobble» in the school dictionary: To cobble is to mend old shoes, especially by hand. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# cobble

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**Who acts:** He, I, We · **What happens:** cobble, be · **To what, where:** odd pieces, old shoes, story, three books, tent, sticks

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«cobble» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [cobble in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cobble.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To cobble is to mend old shoes, especially by hand.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cobble:m1:1
# text = To cobble is to mend old shoes, especially by hand.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cobble	cobble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	mend	mend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cobble** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by hand; mend *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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To cobble is to put something together roughly, from odd pieces.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cobble:m2:1
# text = To cobble is to put something together roughly, from odd pieces.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cobble	cobble	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cobble** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | odd pieces |  | put, roughly, together *property* | tree rules |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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He cobbles old shoes for the village.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cobble:x1:1
# text = He cobbles old shoes for the village.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cobbles	cobble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cobble** | present | He | old shoes |  |  |  | for the village | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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I cobbled this story together from three books.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cobble:x2:1
# text = I cobbled this story together from three books.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cobbled	cobble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **cobble** | past | I | this story |  | three books |  | together *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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We cobbled a tent from sticks and sheets.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cobble:x3:1
# text = We cobbled a tent from sticks and sheets.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cobbled	cobble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cobble** | past | We | a tent |  | sticks and sheets |  |  | 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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