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title: fowler — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fowler» in the school dictionary: A fowler is a person who catches birds, for food or sport. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fowler

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**Who acts:** fowler, person, fowlers, bird · **What happens:** be, catch, set, come, wait · **To what, where:** person, birds, net, reeds

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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A fowler is a person who catches birds, for food or sport.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fowler:m1:1
# text = A fowler is a person who catches birds, for food or sport.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fowler	fowler	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	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 fowler | a person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | present | a person | birds |  |  |  | for food or sport | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bird=Theme for food=Beneficiary |

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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 fowler set a net in the reeds.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fowler:x1:1
# text = The fowler set a net in the reeds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **set** | past | the fowler | a net |  | the reeds |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent net=Theme in reed=Destination |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The fowlers came to catch the birds in the morning.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fowler:x2:1
# text = The fowlers came to catch the birds in the morning.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fowlers	fowler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the fowlers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | the fowlers *not said here* | the birds |  |  | morning |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Caught in the net, the bird waited for the fowler.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fowler:x3:1
# text = Caught in the net, the bird waited for the fowler.
1	Caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  | the net |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wait** | past | the bird | the net *not said here* |  |  |  | for the fowler | 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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