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title: drowse — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «drowse» in the school dictionary: To drowse is to be sleepy and half asleep. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# drowse

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**Who acts:** cat, hum, children, bees, old dog · **What happens:** drowse, be, mean, slip, begin, make · **To what, where:** quiet dreamy state, warm sun.

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«drowse» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [drowse in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/drowse.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To drowse is to be sleepy and half asleep.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drowse:m1:1
# text = To drowse is to be sleepy and half asleep.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drowse	drowse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	advmod	_	_
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drowse** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | half *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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To drowse can mean to slip gently into a quiet, dreamy state.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drowse:m2:1
# text = To drowse can mean to slip gently into a quiet, dreamy state.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drowse	drowse	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | can · infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **slip** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a quiet dreamy state |  | gently *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The cat began to drowse in the warm sun.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drowse:x1:1
# text = The cat began to drowse in the warm sun.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	drowse	drowse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **drowse** | to-infinitive | the cat *not said here* |  |  | the warm sun. |  |  | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The hum of bees made the children drowse.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drowse:x2:1
# text = The hum of bees made the children drowse.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hum	hum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drowse	drowse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the hum of bees |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drowse** | present | the children |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hum** |  | bees |  |  |  |  |  | nom hum «state intransitive»: of=agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The old dog drowsed by the fire all evening.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:drowse:x3:1
# text = The old dog drowsed by the fire all evening.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drowsed	drowse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drowse** | past | the old dog |  |  |  | evening | by the fire | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=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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