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title: frigate — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «frigate» in the school dictionary: An old sailing warship, fairly fast and with many guns. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# frigate

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**Who acts:** Three frigates, frigates, sailors, frigate · **What happens:** sail out, sail, cheer, come · **To what, where:** sea, Africa, port

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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An old sailing warship, fairly fast and with many guns.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frigate:m1:1
# text = An old sailing warship, fairly fast and with many guns.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sailing	sailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	warship	warship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Three frigates sailed out to sea.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frigate:x1:1
# text = Three frigates sailed out to sea.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	frigates	frigate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail out** | past | Three frigates |  |  | sea |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to sea=Trajectory |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The frigates sailed to Africa.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frigate:x2:1
# text = The frigates sailed to Africa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frigates	frigate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | the frigates |  |  | Africa |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to africa=Trajectory |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The sailors cheered as the frigate came into port.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frigate:x3:1
# text = The sailors cheered as the frigate came into port.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	frigate	frigate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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 | **cheer** | past | the sailors |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | past | the frigate |  |  | port |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into port=Initial\_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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