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title: eider — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «eider» in the school dictionary: An eider is a large sea duck. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# eider

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**Who acts:** eider, She, eider ducks, bed · **What happens:** be, use, fill, sleep, swim, have · **To what, where:** large sea duck, soft feathers, quilts, warm down quilt, bay, twenty down quilts

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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An eider is a large sea duck.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:eider:m1:1
# text = An eider is a large sea duck.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eider	eider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a eider | a large sea duck |  |  |  |  | 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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Eider-down is the very soft feathers of this duck, used to fill quilts.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:eider:m2:1
# text = Eider-down is the very soft feathers of this duck, used to fill quilts.
1	Eider	eider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	quilts	quilt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Eider and down | the soft feathers |  |  |  | of this duck | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle | Eider and down *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fill** | to-infinitive | Eider and down *not said here* | quilts |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent quilt=Patient |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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She slept under a warm eider-down quilt.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:eider:x1:1
# text = She slept under a warm eider-down quilt.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	eider	eider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	quilt	quilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | She |  |  | a warm down quilt |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The eider ducks swam in the bay.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:eider:x2:1
# text = The eider ducks swam in the bay.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	eider	eider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | the eider ducks |  |  | the bay |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bay=Trajectory |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The bed had twenty eider-down quilts.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:eider:x3:1
# text = The bed had twenty eider-down quilts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
5	eider	eider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	quilts	quilt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the bed | twenty down quilts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quilt=Patient |

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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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