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title: creel — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «creel» in the school dictionary: A wicker basket, often for carrying fish, or one carried on the back. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# creel

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**Who acts:** wicker basket, fisherman, brother, He · **What happens:** carry, put, climb · **To what, where:** fish, one, back, creel

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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A wicker basket, often for carrying fish, or one carried on the back.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:creel:m1:1
# text = A wicker basket, often for carrying fish, or one carried on the back.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wicker	wicker	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | gerund | a wicker basket *not said here* | fish |  |  |  | often *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | participle · passive | a wicker basket *not said here* | one |  | the back |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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The fisherman put the fish in his creel.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:creel:x1:1
# text = The fisherman put the fish in his creel.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	creel	creel	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 | **put** | infinitive | the fisherman | the fish |  | fisherman's creel |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in creel=Destination |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The brother climbed into the creel.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:creel:x2:1
# text = The brother climbed into the creel.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	creel	creel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | the brother |  |  | the creel |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into creel=Destination |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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He carried the creel on his back up the hill.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:creel:x3:1
# text = He carried the creel on his back up the hill.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	creel	creel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | He | the creel |  | his back |  | up the hill | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creel=Theme |

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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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