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title: dragoon — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «dragoon» in the school dictionary: a soldier who rode a horse and sometimes fought on foot. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# dragoon

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**Who acts:** soldier, dragoons, troop, king · **What happens:** ride, fight, march, send, guard · **To what, where:** horse, foot, town, castle, dozen dragoons, gate

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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a soldier who rode a horse and sometimes fought on foot.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dragoon:m1:1
# text = a soldier who rode a horse and sometimes fought on foot.
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | a soldier | a horse |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | past | a soldier *not said here* |  |  | foot |  | sometimes *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 dragoons rode into the town at dawn.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dragoon:x1:1
# text = The dragoons rode into the town at dawn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragoons	dragoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|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	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dawn	dawn	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 | **ride** | past | the dragoons |  |  | the town | dawn |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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A troop of dragoons marched past the castle.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dragoon:x2:1
# text = A troop of dragoons marched past the castle.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dragoons	dragoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	past	past	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The king sent a dozen dragoons to guard the gate.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:dragoon:x3:1
# text = The king sent a dozen dragoons to guard the gate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	dragoons	dragoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the king | dozen dragoons |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragoon=Theme |
| 2 | **guard** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the gate |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |

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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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