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title: fledged — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fledged» in the school dictionary: A fledged bird has grown the feathers it needs to fly. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fledged

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**Who acts:** fledged bird, bird, feathers, young bird, Ivan · **What happens:** fledge, grow, need, fly, not mean, learn · **To what, where:** feathers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«fledged» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 1 example, 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: [fledged in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fledged.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A fledged bird has grown the feathers it needs to fly.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fledged:m1:1
# text = A fledged bird has grown the feathers it needs to fly.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fledged	fledge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fledge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present · perfect | a fledged bird | the feathers |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location feather=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | bird | the feathers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the feathers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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«Half-fledged» means not yet fully grown or ready, like a young bird still learning to fly.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fledged:m2:1
# text = «Half-fledged» means not yet fully grown or ready, like a young bird still learning to fly.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	fledged	fledge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fledge** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  | yet | like a young bird; fully *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **learn** | gerund | a young bird *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **fly** | to-infinitive | a young bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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But as for the youngest one, Ivan, he was like a half-grown lad or a half-fledged duckling.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fledged:x1:1
# text = But as for the youngest one, Ivan, he was like a half-grown lad or a half-fledged duckling.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	fledged	fledge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Ivan |  |  |  |  | like a grown lad or a fledged duckling | tree rules |
| 3 | **fledge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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