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title: flavor — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «flavor» in the school dictionary: The flavor of food is how it tastes. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# flavor

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**Who acts:** flavor, food, I · **What happens:** be, flavor, taste, drink, like · **To what, where:** food, unleavened flour, flavor

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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The flavor of food is how it tastes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:flavor:m1:1
# text = The flavor of food is how it tastes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flavor	flavor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the flavor of food |  |  |  |  | taste *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flavor** |  |  | food |  |  |  |  | nom flavor «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To flavor food is to add something to it, such as herbs or garlic, so that it tastes of something.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:flavor:m2:1
# text = To flavor food is to add something to it, such as herbs or garlic, so that it tastes of something.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	flavor	flavor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	garlic	garlic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flavor** | to-infinitive |  | food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | add *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **taste** | present | food |  |  |  |  | of something | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Cakes of unleavened flour flavored with garlic.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:flavor:x1:1
# text = Cakes of unleavened flour flavored with garlic.
1	Cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	unleavened	unleavened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	flavored	flavor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	garlic	garlic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flavor** | participle |  | unleavened flour *not said here* |  |  |  | with garlic | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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But the more I drink of it, the better I like the flavor.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:flavor:x2:1
# text = But the more I drink of it, the better I like the flavor.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advcl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flavor	flavor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | I |  |  |  |  | of it | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source |
| 2 | **like** | present | I | the flavor |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flavor=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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