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title: dale — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «dale» in the school dictionary: A valley: a low piece of land lying between hills, often with a stream or river running through it. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# dale

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**Who acts:** low piece, river, They, stream, village · **What happens:** lie, run, journey · **To what, where:** hills, river, hill, green dale, quiet dale

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A valley: a low piece of land lying between hills, often with a stream or river running through it.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dale:m1:1
# text = A valley: a low piece of land lying between hills, often with a stream or river running through it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund | a low piece of land *not said here* |  |  | hills |  | with a stream or river | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between hill=Location |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | river *not said here* |  |  | river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory |

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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 -->
They journeyed over hill and dale.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dale:x1:1
# text = They journeyed over hill and dale.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | They |  |  | hill and dale |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A stream ran through the green dale.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dale:x2:1
# text = A stream ran through the green dale.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | a stream |  |  | the green dale |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through dale=Trajectory |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The village lay in a quiet dale.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dale:x3:1
# text = The village lay in a quiet dale.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the village |  |  | a quiet dale |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dale=Location |

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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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