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title: ferryboat — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «ferryboat» in the school dictionary: A ferryboat is a boat that carries people, cars or goods across a river or sea and back again. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# ferryboat

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**Who acts:** ferryboat, boat, We, He · **What happens:** be, carry, cross, spring · **To what, where:** boat, people, river, ferryboat, twenty people

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A ferryboat is a boat that carries people, cars or goods across a river or sea and back again.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ferryboat:m1:1
# text = A ferryboat is a boat that carries people, cars or goods across a river or sea and back again.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ferryboat	ferryboat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	conj	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a ferryboat | a boat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | present | a boat | people and cars or goods |  | a river or sea | again |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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 -->
We crossed the river on the ferryboat.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ferryboat:x1:1
# text = We crossed the river on the ferryboat.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ferryboat	ferryboat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | We | the river |  | the ferryboat |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He sprang into the ferryboat.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ferryboat:x2:1
# text = He sprang into the ferryboat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ferryboat	ferryboat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | He |  |  | the ferryboat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ferryboat=Destination |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The ferryboat carried twenty people at a time.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ferryboat:x3:1
# text = The ferryboat carried twenty people at a time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ferryboat	ferryboat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	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 | **carry** | past | the ferryboat | twenty people |  |  | time |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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