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title: divulge — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «divulge» in the school dictionary: To reveal a secret or private information. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# divulge

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**Who acts:** He, you, our · **What happens:** reveal, not divulge, name, plan · **To what, where:** secret, name, thief, plan, anyone

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«divulge» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [divulge in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/divulge.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To reveal a secret or private information.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:divulge:m1:1
# text = To reveal a secret or private information.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reveal** | to-infinitive |  | a secret or private information |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |

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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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He would not divulge the name of the thief.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:divulge:x1:1
# text = He would not divulge the name of the thief.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	divulge	divulge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **divulge** *speech: other* | would | He | the name of the thief |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 2 | **name** |  |  | the thief |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Do not divulge our plan to anyone.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:divulge:x2:1
# text = Do not divulge our plan to anyone.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	divulge	divulge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	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 | **not** **divulge** *speech: other* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | our plan | anyone |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent plan=Topic to anyone=Recipient |
| 2 | **plan** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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