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title: crockery — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «crockery» in the school dictionary: Crockery is plates, cups, bowls and dishes made of baked clay or china. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# crockery

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**Who acts:** he, She · **What happens:** be, make, bake, stumble, break, wash · **To what, where:** Crockery plates, dishes, piece, crockery, kitchen shelf

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Crockery is plates, cups, bowls and dishes made of baked clay or china.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:crockery:m1:1
# text = Crockery is plates, cups, bowls and dishes made of baked clay or china.
1	Crockery	crockery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bowls	bowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Crockery plates and cups and bowls and dishes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | dishes *not said here* |  |  |  | of baked clay or china | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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Then he stumbled against a piece of broken crockery.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:crockery:x1:1
# text = Then he stumbled against a piece of broken crockery.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	crockery	crockery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stumble** | past | he |  |  | a piece of broken crockery | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against piece=Trajectory |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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She washed the crockery after supper.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:crockery:x2:1
# text = She washed the crockery after supper.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	washed	wash	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	crockery	crockery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	supper	supper	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 | **wash** | past | She | the crockery |  |  | after supper |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crockery=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The crockery is stacked on the kitchen shelf.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:crockery:x3:1
# text = The crockery is stacked on the kitchen shelf.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crockery	crockery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	stacked	stack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stack** | present · passive |  | the crockery |  | the kitchen shelf |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on shelf=Destination |

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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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