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title: fragmentary — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fragmentary» in the school dictionary: Fragmentary means broken into small pieces, or only partly known, not whole. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fragmentary

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**Who acts:** Fragmentary, old map, We, fragmentary pictures · **What happens:** mean, break, know, be, have, show · **To what, where:** small pieces, fragmentary news, kingdom, earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Fragmentary means broken into small pieces, or only partly known, not whole.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fragmentary:m1:1
# text = Fragmentary means broken into small pieces, or only partly known, not whole.
1	Fragmentary	fragmentary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Fragmentary |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | into small pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
| 3 | **know** | participle | Fragmentary *not said here* |  |  |  |  | partly, whole *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 old map was fragmentary, with pieces missing.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fragmentary:x1:1
# text = The old map was fragmentary, with pieces missing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fragmentary	fragmentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
9	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the old map |  |  |  |  | fragmentary *property* | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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We had only fragmentary news of the battle.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fragmentary:x2:1
# text = We had only fragmentary news of the battle.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	fragmentary	fragmentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | We | fragmentary news of the battle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The fragmentary pictures showed a kingdom under the earth.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:fragmentary:x3:1
# text = The fragmentary pictures showed a kingdom under the earth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fragmentary	fragmentary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | the fragmentary pictures | a kingdom |  | the earth |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Recipient |

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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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