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title: cobbler — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «cobbler» in the school dictionary: A cobbler is a person who mends shoes. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# cobbler

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**Who acts:** cobbler, person, We · **What happens:** be, mend, bake, sit, have · **To what, where:** person, shoes, fruit pudding, boots, bench, apple cobbler

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A cobbler is a person who mends shoes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cobbler:m1:1
# text = A cobbler is a person who mends shoes.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mends	mend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a cobbler | a person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mend** | present | a person | shoes |  |  |  |  | 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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Usage: cooking — kept apart, not parsed.

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A cobbler is a fruit pudding baked with a thick crust on top.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cobbler:m2:1
# text = A cobbler is a fruit pudding baked with a thick crust on top.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a cobbler | a fruit pudding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bake** | participle |  | a fruit pudding *not said here* |  |  |  | with a thick crust on top | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with crust=Instrument |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The cobbler mended the boy's boots.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cobbler:x1:1
# text = The cobbler mended the boy's boots.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mended	mend	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	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	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 | **mend** | past | the cobbler | the boy's boots |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The cobbler sat at his bench all day.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cobbler:x2:1
# text = The cobbler sat at his bench all day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the cobbler |  |  | cobbler's bench | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bench=Location |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
We had apple cobbler for pudding.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cobbler:x3:1
# text = We had apple cobbler for pudding.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | We | apple cobbler |  |  |  | for pudding | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cobbler=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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