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title: fosterling — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fosterling» in the school dictionary: A fosterling is a child or young animal brought up by someone who is not its own parent. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fosterling

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**Who acts:** fosterling, king · **What happens:** be, bring up, not be, raise, lament, not master · **To what, where:** child, young animal, own parent, orphan, hard art

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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A fosterling is a child or young animal brought up by someone who is not its own parent.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fosterling:m1:1
# text = A fosterling is a child or young animal brought up by someone who is not its own parent.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fosterling	fosterling	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	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 fosterling | a child or young animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring up** | participle |  | young animal *not said here* |  |  |  | by someone | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present |  | fosterling's own parent |  |  |  |  | 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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The king raised the orphan as his fosterling.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fosterling:x1:1
# text = The king raised the orphan as his fosterling.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	orphan	orphan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fosterling	fosterling	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 | **raise** | past | the king | the orphan |  |  |  | as king's fosterling | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orphan=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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His fosterling lamented that the hard art would never be mastered.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fosterling:x2:1
# text = His fosterling lamented that the hard art would never be mastered.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fosterling	fosterling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lamented	lament	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	mastered	master	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lament** | past | His fosterling |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **master** | would · passive |  | the hard art |  |  |  |  | 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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