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title: fount — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fount» in the school dictionary: A fount is a spring of water, or a fountain. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fount

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**Who acts:** fount, children · **What happens:** be, drink, throw, bubble up · **To what, where:** spring, fount, witch, fiery fount, old

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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A fount is a spring of water, or a fountain.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fount:m1:1
# text = A fount is a spring of water, or a fountain.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fount	fount	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	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 fount | a spring or a fountain |  |  |  | of water | 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 children drank from the fount in the wood.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fount:x1:1
# text = The children drank from the fount in the wood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fount	fount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | the children |  |  | the fount |  | in the wood | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from fount=Source |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The witch was thrown into the fiery fount.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fount:x2:1
# text = The witch was thrown into the fiery fount.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fount	fount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past · passive |  | the witch |  |  |  | into the fiery fount *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into fount=Result |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The fount bubbled up beside the old well.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fount:x3:1
# text = The fount bubbled up beside the old well.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fount	fount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	bubbled	bubble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bubble up** | participle |  | the fount *not said here* |  | the old |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside old=Location |

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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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