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title: furze — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «furze» in the school dictionary: Furze is a prickly yellow-flowered shrub that grows on heaths and common land, also called gorse. (old use, in fairy tales). Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# furze

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**Who acts:** Furze, prickly flowered shrub, heaths, man, pig, Yellow flowers · **What happens:** flower, be, grow, call, carry, build · **To what, where:** prickly flowered shrub, heaths, gorse, bundle, house, furze · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Furze is a prickly yellow-flowered shrub that grows on heaths and common land, also called gorse. (old use, in fairy tales).

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*Sentence 1:* Furze is a prickly yellow-flowered shrub that grows on heaths and common land, also called gorse.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:furze:m1:1
# text = Furze is a prickly yellow-flowered shrub that grows on heaths and common land, also called gorse.
1	Furze	furze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	prickly	prickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	flowered	flower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	shrub	shrub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	heaths	heath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
19	gorse	gorse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flower** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Furze | a prickly flowered shrub |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | present | a prickly flowered shrub |  |  | heaths and common land |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on heath=Location |
| 4 | **call** | participle | heaths and common land *not said here* | gorse |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* (old use, in fairy tales).

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:furze:m1:2
# text = (old use, in fairy tales).
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 1 {#x1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The man carried a bundle of furze.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:furze:x1:1
# text = The man carried a bundle of furze.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	furze	furze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the man | a bundle of furze |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The pig built his house from furze.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:furze:x2:1
# text = The pig built his house from furze.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	furze	furze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the pig | pig's house |  | furze |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent house=Product from furze=Material |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yellow flowers grew on the furze bushes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:furze:x3:1
# text = Yellow flowers grew on the furze bushes.
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	furze	furze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Yellow flowers |  |  | the furze bushes |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bush=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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