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title: cowslip — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «cowslip» in the school dictionary: A wild spring flower with pale yellow, sweet-smelling blossoms that grows in grass and meadows. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# cowslip

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**Who acts:** pale yellow smelling blossoms, We, field, She · **What happens:** smell, grow, pick, be, make, crown · **To what, where:** grass, cowslips, meadow, crown

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A wild spring flower with pale yellow, sweet-smelling blossoms that grows in grass and meadows.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cowslip:m1:1
# text = A wild spring flower with pale yellow, sweet-smelling blossoms that grows in grass and meadows.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
6	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	_
12	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | present | pale yellow smelling blossoms |  |  | grass and meadows |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
We picked cowslips in the meadow.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cowslip:x1:1
# text = We picked cowslips in the meadow.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cowslips	cowslip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | past | We | cowslips |  | the meadow |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cowslip=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The field was yellow with cowslips.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cowslip:x2:1
# text = The field was yellow with cowslips.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cowslips	cowslip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the field |  |  |  |  | with cowslips; yellow *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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She made a crown of cowslips.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cowslip:x3:1
# text = She made a crown of cowslips.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cowslips	cowslip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **make** | past | She | a crown of cowslips |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Product |
| 2 | **crown** |  |  | cowslips |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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