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title: colonized — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «colonized» in the school dictionary: To colonize a place is to go to a faraway land, settle there and take control of it, often with people from another country. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# colonized

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**Who acts:** Greek settlers, many people, settlers · **What happens:** colonize, be, settle, take, build · **To what, where:** place, control, land, new islands, valley, farms

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To colonize a place is to go to a faraway land, settle there and take control of it, often with people from another country.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:colonized:m1:1
# text = To colonize a place is to go to a faraway land, settle there and take control of it, often with people from another country.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	colonize	colonize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	faraway	faraway	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	settle	settle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **colonize** | to-infinitive |  | a place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to a faraway land; go *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **settle** | infinitive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | control of control |  |  |  | with people from another country | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=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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Greek settlers colonized the land by the sea.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:colonized:x1:1
# text = Greek settlers colonized the land by the sea.
1	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	colonized	colonize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	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 | **colonize** | past | Greek settlers | the land |  |  |  | by the sea | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Long ago, many people colonized new islands.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:colonized:x2:1
# text = Long ago, many people colonized new islands.
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	colonized	colonize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **colonize** | past | many people | new islands |  |  |  | ago *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The settlers colonized the valley and built farms there.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:colonized:x3:1
# text = The settlers colonized the valley and built farms there.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	colonized	colonize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **colonize** | past | the settlers | the valley |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | past | the settlers *not said here* | farms |  | there |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset farm=Product |

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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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