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title: frizzle — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «frizzle» in the school dictionary: To cook in hot fat so that it sizzles and goes crisp. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# frizzle

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**Who acts:** fat, kitchen, pheasants · **What happens:** cook, sizzle, go, curl, frizzle, be · **To what, where:** hair, tight small curls, sausages, pan, spit

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«frizzle» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [frizzle in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/frizzle.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To cook in hot fat so that it sizzles and goes crisp.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frizzle:m1:1
# text = To cook in hot fat so that it sizzles and goes crisp.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	9	mark	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sizzles	sizzle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	crisp	crisp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in hot fat | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in fat=Instrument |
| 2 | **sizzle** | present | fat |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | fat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | crisp *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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To curl hair into tight small curls.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frizzle:m2:1
# text = To curl hair into tight small curls.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	curl	curl	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curl** | to-infinitive |  | hair |  | tight small curls |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hair=Theme into curl=Destination |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The sausages frizzled in the pan.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frizzle:x1:1
# text = The sausages frizzled in the pan.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sausages	sausage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	frizzled	frizzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frizzle** | participle |  | the sausages *not said here* |  | the pan |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The kitchen was full of frizzling smells.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frizzle:x2:1
# text = The kitchen was full of frizzling smells.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	frizzling	frizzling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	smells	smell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the kitchen |  |  |  |  | of frizzling smells; full *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The pheasants were frizzling on the spit.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:frizzle:x3:1
# text = The pheasants were frizzling on the spit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pheasants	pheasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	frizzling	frizzle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frizzle** | past · progressive | the pheasants |  |  | the spit |  |  | 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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